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Chicago Plan Commission 


Proceedings of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Chicago 
Plan Commission, Held in the Italian Room, 


Hotel Sherman, on April 9th, 1920 


Ten Years Work 


of the 


Chicago Plan Commission 
1909 - 1919 


A Resumé of the Work 
on the Plan of Chicago 


Presented by the Executive Committee to and approved by the 
Chicago Plan Commission in Session April 9, 1920 


Issued from the Headquarters of 


CHICAGO PLAN COMMISSION 
HOTEL SHERMAN 


April; 1920 


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Chicago Plan Commission 


Proceedings of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Chicago Plan Com- 


mission, Held in the Italian Room, Hotel Sherman, 
on April 9, 1920. 


PRESENT: 
Adamowski, Max, Ald. Fowler, W. A. Pettibone, Amos 
maaercon, eA. .O;, “Ald: Glackin, Edward. J. Revell, Alexander H. 
Bartlett, Frederick H. Glessner, J. J. Robinson, Theo. W. 
Bennett, Frank I. Hines, Edward Scott, John W. 
Berlin, Robert C. Hottinger, Otto G. Shanahan, D. 5. 
Brown, Everett C. Plaltin.. IN. JEL. Shepard, Frank L, 
Cervenka, John A. Jackson, George W. Stube,. Johnw rH: 
Chamberlin, Henry B. Judd, Edward 5S. Sultan, Dr. George 
Chap, Ignatius Le~Tourneux,: E.- D. Thompson, John E. 
6 Clark, A. Sheldon Lipps.e Web, Ald: Thorne, Charles H. 
Clow, William E. Maypole, Wm. T. Tinsman, Homer E. 
Cohen, Edward Moody, Walter D. Toman, John, Ald. 
Coonley, Henry E. Nering, John Wacker, Charles H. 
Dasso, Paul Nimmons, Geo. C. Watson, O. L., Ald. 
Dibelka, James B. Novak, Jos. I., Ald. Wheeler, Harry A; 
Dixon, George W. Oehsners Dra A: 4: Williams, Dr. J. F. 
Donnelley, Thos. E. Oehman, John S. Williams, Thomas 
Ettelson, Samuel A. Olsen, Oscar, H., Ald. Woolley, C. F. 
Faherty, Michael J. Ott, Herman <A; cata s ae ieee 
Fisher, Albert J., Ald. Pendarvis, Robt. E. ee iors See 
Forgan, James B. Peterson, Wm. A. E. H. Bennett, Consultant. 


The meeting was called to order by Chairman Wacker at 1:00 
Pee 

Seok views GHAR ES Ey AWAGCK ER: Tohave béeftoreimé«a 
report which, after giving it most careful consideration, the Execu- 
tive Committee has requested me to submit for: your approval. 

It is a report of the ten years work of the Chicago Plan Com- 
mission, from 1909 to 1919, and is as follows: 


Ten Year This is an epoch in the history of the Chicago Plan 

Anniversary a ay, eas : : ‘ 7 
Commission. It is the anniversary of the work of ten 
years, during which all its recommendations, excepting 
the Post Office and River Straightening, have been pro- 
vided for. 


di Emerson says that most people must see a house 
built before they can comprehend the-plan. ‘Ven years 
ago people did not comprehend the Plan of Chicago. 
Not perceiving sits “reality, they ‘calledsit a “picture” 
Olan aAncea= stark plan 

1021 


1044406 


See Index on Page 68. 


People Have 
Adopted Plan 


Object Lessons 


Appointment 
of Plan 
Commission 


Plan Accom- 
plishments 


Today, seeing the Michigan Avenue and Roosevelt 
Road (Twelfth Street) improvements nearing com- 


[Ro to the people have adopted the Plan as their own. 


No longer does it have the vagueness of unreality. It 
has become to them a living, vital, tangible thing. 


Foreseeing this, the wisdom of the Plan Commis- 
sion is now apparent in adopting two improvements— 
Roosevelt Road and Michigan Avenue—and standing 
tenaciously for their construction. These improve- 
ments, although incomplete, have served most effective- 
ly as object lessons. This is conclusively shown in the 
ever-increasing majorities given Chicago Plan bond 
issues, and in the larger votes given Plan proposals in 
PhesiiiyseouTich: 


@ Ten years is a long or a short time according to 
our several viewpoints and the nature of our activities. 
Ten years time to a man in prison is a lifetime. In the 
life of a city ten years time is only a milestone. 


It is ten years since Mayor Fred A. Busse, author- 
ized by the City Council, appointed the Chicago Plan 
Commission, on November 1, 1909. When the Plan of 
Chicago was completed by The Commercial Club, 
under the direction of Daniel Hudson Burnham, aided 
by Edward H. Bennett, it was presented to the city 
with the request that a Commission be appointed to 
study the Plan and recommend what parts should be 
carried out. 


@ These ten years, to use a paradox, have been both 
a long and a short period—long in the struggle to 
change city-wide misapprehension to comprehension— 
short in view of what actually has been accomplished. 


Today twelve basic features have been provided 
for by bond issues where necessary, and are either un- 
der construction or advanced in procedure inegme 
Board of Local Improvements or in the courts. 


ql 2 A tesevare: 

The Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street) widening 
and extension. 

The Michigan Avenue widening and extension. 

The West Side passenger and freight terminal 
plans, including widening Polk and Taylor Street via- 
ducts; widening Canal Street between Roosevelt Road 
and Washington Street, and extending it via the two- 
level Kinzie Street bridge to Orleans Street, connecting 
with the new Franklin-Orleans Street bridge; and the 
Monroe Street bridge. 

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The South Shore Lake Front plans, including the 
completion of Grant Park, the extension of the Roose- 
velt Road (Twelfth Street) viaduct to the Field Colum- 
bian Museum of Natural History; construction of the 
parkways to the southward; and the South Park Avy- 
enue widening and extension northward to Randolph 
Street, (making possible an outer drive connection be- 
tween Grant Park and the Lake Shore Drive at the 
foot of the Municipal Pier, which project has already 
been considered favorably by the Lincoln and South 
Park Boards.) 


The Illinois Central Railroad terminal rehabilita- 
tion. 


The widening of Western Avenue. 

The widening and opening of Ashland Avenue. 

The widening and opening of Robey Street. 

The extension of Ogden Avenue from Union Park 
to Lincoln Park. 


The South Water Street widening and two-level 
connection with Michigan Avenue. 


The acquisition of 14,254 acres of Forest Preserves 
by the Forest Preserve Commission. 


The improvement of the Outer Highway System. 


This is the sum total during the past ten years. 
Toward the public cost of these improvements the 
people have voted $61,510,000 of bonds; the balance 
of the cost will be provided in the usual manner; the 
special assessments for the Michigan Avenue and 
Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street) improvements have 
amounted to $8,125,237.89; the railway companies have 
agreed to spend $162,091,350.00; and the Forest Pre- 
serve Commission has expended $5,316,762.00. 


Barring unforseen events, all these projects should 
be completed within the next five years, excepting the 
entire electrification of the Illinois Central and the ex- 
tension of the lake front park plans south of Thirty- 
ninth Street. 


@ All of these improvements are of tremendous 
benefit to the three sides of the city, but especially so to 
the great West Side, where street improvements are 
imperative. 


It is a source of great satisfaction to know that all 
the difficult and intricate problems with which we have 
been confronted have been successfully solved by our 
technical department under the direction of Edward 
H. Bennett. 


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Cost of 
Plan Projects 


Time of 
Completion 


on 


Increase in 
Property Values 


City Revenue 
Increase 


Result of 
Improvements 


New York City 


@ City planning its a profitable investment, both to 
property owners and to the city. This is_ clearly 
shown in the increase in property values and city rev- 
enue from the Michigan Avenue and Roosevelt Road 
(Twelfth Street) improvements. 


Values in the immediate zone oft the Michigan 
Avenue improvement, according to Secretary Frederick 
M. Bowes of the North Central Association, have in- 
creased $35,000,000.00, with the improvement unfin- 
ished. Due to this improvement, $100,000,000.00 of 
buildings are under construction or planned in this 
zone. 


The Roosevelt Road frontage—land and buildings 
—from Canal Street to Ashland Avenue, according to 


Court Commissioner Harry Goldstine, was valued at 


$8,000,000.00 prior to the improvement. Although the 
improvement is incomplete, this frontage value has 


increased $2,500,000.00. 


From the increases to be caused by these two 1m- 
provements alone the city will annually receive a rev- 
enue of $3,575,000.00, if assessed on the valuation of 


the full increase. 


Both the property values and the revenues of the 
city will continue to increase with the completion of 
these improvements and their ultimate intensive de- 
velopment. 


The same results will be obtained from all the 
other public improvements, not only along the line of 
the improvement but also in their adjacent districts ; 
1. e€., increased property values and building activity and 
a consequent increased revenue to the city. 


@€ The Plan Commission is not a money-spending but 
a money-earning institution. 

The effect of Plan of Chicago improvements on 
the commerce and general prosperity of the city will 
be most stimulating. 

Other cities are aggressively competing for the 
business which focal belongs to Chicago, and our 
city, in order to maintain its eoriercial and industrial 
prestige and safeguard its future, must carry out these 
Pubic spetterments. 


New York City, according to the Merchants’ As- 
sociation, annually receives $876,000,000.00 — more 
than twice the cost of the Panama Canal—from its 
200,000 daily visitors, each spending an estimated low 
average of $12.00 per day for food and lodging. 

1024 


The advantages of Chicago are incomparable. It Chicago 

is the greatest railroad center in the nation, center of 
the richest territory in’ the world, and the center of 
more than half the population of the United States. 
With the Plan improvements finished, Chicago will be 
the tourist Mecca; and the money in the coffers of the 
city will be increased immeasurably, benefiting all our 
people. 


Business and labor will be benefited, but the great Benefit of 
purpose of these improvements is to promote happiness, 5 
comfort, and good public health, thus directly enrich- 
ing in the highest human way every man, woman and 
child. Good homes, clean, broad streets, unobstructed 
sunlight and fresh air are necessary to elevate our 
moral and physical standards. 


@ The work of the Plan Commission is progressive. Mee 
y . : . s : ommission 

No thinking person will say it is ended now that most 
of the basic features in the Plan are assured. Its value 
lies as much in preventing bad development as in ac- 
complishing good development. 

In twenty-five years our population will be 5,000,- 
O00. Thus will be multiplied conditions of congestion, 
inadequate streets and transportation and insufficient 
parks. Realizing this, we must plan adequately for the 
future and prevent, at all hazards, the recurrence of 
present unsatisfactory conditions, caused by rapid 
growth and haphazard development. 

New improvements will have to be advocated and 
carried out. In many sections dire need for improve- 
ment now exists. 


Problems of public import yet unsolved are: Unsolved 
: ‘ Problems 

Zoning. 

Housing. 


ire sGivic.Center and openine of.Coneress. street. 

The River Straightening, and opening Wells, Mar- 
ket, Franklin, La Salle and Dearborn Streets through 
tie closed railroad area, and connecting them with 
mmcher Aventie. 

Opening Thirty-ninth Street. 

Witereboulevard, Connection between, Grant and 
Lincoln Parks. 

West Side Post Office. 

Polk Street widening. 

A complete study of the street system in the term- 
inal area between Polk, State and Sixteenth Streets 
BUG muneeri Ver, 

Outer circuit roadway. 


Other Unsolved 
Problems 


Legislative 
Matters 


Purpose of 
Report 


Recapitulation 
Attached 


Post Office 


Inadequate 
Facilities 


Boulevards along drainage canal. 
Co-ordination of unsubdivided sections with the 
city. 

Interspersed with these are matters of lesser im- 
portance, many of which are engaging the attention 
of your officers and technical staff. 

These include: 

Elevation of State Street to connect with Roose- 
velt Road (Twelfth Street) viaduct. 

Opening Seventy-first Street. 

Opening Indiana Avenue between 115th and 116th 
siteets, 

Extending Torrence Avenue. 


Other matters of importance, concerned with the 
legislative situation, are: 

Zoning laws. 

Greater bonding powers. 

Excess condemnation. 

These matters are receiving the attention of our 
attorneys in the Constitutional Convention. 

The value of our Commission in such matters was 
shown in the Spring of 1919 when it had to make the 
legislative fight for increased bonding power. 


@ ‘This report is to commemorate our ten years work 
and properly record it for public use and guidance. It 
is not the purpose of your Executive Committee to re- 
view the work in detail, but merely to report a general 
synopsis. 


A complete recapitulation of the improvements 
now provided for has been appended to this report. 
Thus our members, public authorities, civic leaders, 
and all who are constantly seeking information about 
the Plan of Chicago will have ready access to it in a 
single publication. 

This recapitulation covers all essential details, the 
history, and the present status of each improvemen« 


@ Of our recommendations, the West Side Post Of- 
fice site appropriation remains unprovided for. 


The post office facilities of Chicago have been in- 
adequate for forty vears. Recently a careful survey of 
the situation has been completed by postal employes 
at the request of the Postmaster. This report states 
that the mail service is twenty-five per cent less rapid 
today than it was twenty-five years ago, and will break 
down absolutely in two years 1f prompt relief is not had. 

This is an emergency of the first magnitude. 

1026 


Conditions in the present post office building, 
which was inadequate even in 1906 when it was com- 
pleted, have become almost intolerable. The working 
quarters are insanitary. The space for handling mail 
is so cramped that the government has been compelled 
to resort to many uneconomic expedients. 


The condition is so bad that it cannot be described, 
and is causing unwarranted delays invall classes of mail, 
and incalculable loss to the commerce of Chicago and 
Meeiaroe tributary territory. In tact, the entire mail 
service of the country is detrimentally affected. 


In the fourteen years since the completion of the 
present post office, postal receipts have increased 211 
percent and mail tonnage has increased 278 percent. 
This necessitates handling a large tonnage outside the 
post office in business establishments. 


The increase alone in tonnage is greater than the 
combined 1919 postal business of Boston, Detroit, Cin- 
cinnati, Kansas City and Jersey City. 


From 1915 to 1920 the postal receipts of Chicago 
increased $13,000,000.00. This increase is $3,000,000.00 
more than the total receipts of Philadelphia, the third 
largest post office in the country. 


The 1919 report of the Postmaster General rec- 
ommends 1,200,000 square feet of floor space for the 
proposed new post office in Chicago. This necessitates 
a two-block site. 


January 8, 1915, the Plan Commission recom- 
mended the two-block site fronting on Canal Street be- 
tween Madison and Adams Streets. 

The reasons why this is the best possible site are: 


Its accessibility to and from all parts of the city. 

Adequate surrounding street area. 

Advantage of fronting upon two-level Canal 
street, affording truck access from Clinton Street to 
the lower floor and from Canal Street to the main floor. 

Location between the Northwestern and Union 
Stations where 62 percent of the mail of Chicago is 
handled, resulting in a saving to the government in 
haulage, equipment and operation. 

Shortest and most direct connection by wagon or 
tube with the present post office. 

This means maximum convenience and economy 
in postal operation and in dispatch of the mail service. 

The two-block Canal Street site is estimated to 
cost $6,000,000.00. Of this amount the government 
has appropriated $1,750,000.00. 


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Insufficient 
Space 


Delays-Caused 


Increase in 
Postal Business 


Increase in 
Tonnage 


Increase in 
Receipts 


Two-block 
Site Needed 


Commission 
Recom- 
mendation 


Reasons Why 
Canal Street 
Site Is Best 


Cost of 
Two-Block Site 


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Petition to 
Congress 


Public 
Buildings Bill 


Gallagher 
Bill 


City Council 
Resolution 


Postoffice 
Committee 


Publicity 


Newspaper 
Support 


Commercial 
Club Plan 
Report 


Chicago’s 
Greatest 
Issue 


Early in 1916 civic and commercial organizations 
in 236 cities of nineteen states, and 7,000 leading Chi- 
cago business firms, petitioned Congress to purchase 
immediately the Canal Street site. 


January. 18, A917, the House passed see ae 
Buildings and Grounds appropriation bill which in- 
eluded the ‘Chicago item. This bill went to the senate: 
where it was consigned to the Senate waste-basket, 
along with other similar appropriation bills, when our 
COU thy sen tercamtne sored ivy aie 


A special bill, introduced by Congressman Thomas 
Gallagher in Congress on May 19, 1919, and still pend- 
ing, increases the $1,750,000.00 appropriation to $6,- 
000,000.00. This was referred to the Public Buildings 
and Grounds Committee of the House. This commit- 
tee, having adopted a policy of retrenchment, decided 
not to report out any public buildings bill during the 
present Congress. 


January 21,°1920; the City Council of) Chicas 
passed a resolution asking Congress to reconsider this 
matter so an emergency bill could be passed for the 
purchase of the Canal. Street. site. 


June 13, 1919, Postmaster William Ge Carlitos 
pointed a committee on the post office site, of which 
Chairman Charles H. Wacker is Chairman. 

The postal question has since been taken pects 
fectively in the Postal Service Committee of the Chi- 
cago Association of Commerce. 


€ From the start the publicity of the Commission 
has been effective, wide-spread and so varied that only 
brief allusion to it can be made. The outstanding feat- 
ures. worthy of recordeare: 


First and foremost, the uniform, unstinted and un- 
precedented support of the newspapers, without which 
little progress could have been made. Perhaps in no 
other American city have the newspapers been so 
united and effective on any public project as have the 
Chicago papers in advancing the Plan of Chicago. 


Back of this, of course, is the Plan of Chicago re= 
port, published by The Commercial Club in 1909. 
Complimentary copies were sent to the city authorities, 
governmental bodies, libraries, leading educators and 
civic organizations of Chicago and many other Amer- 
ican cities. 

The first publication of the Commission, in 1911, 
entitled ““Chicago’s Greatest Issue,” was distributed to 

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Wacker’s 
Manual 


Plan 
Lectures 


Organizations 
Addressed 


March Lecture 
Schedule 


Motion 
Pictures 


165,000 property owners and renters. Although now 
out of print, it is still in great demand. 


In 1912 the Board of Education adopted the text 
book entitled “Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chi- 
cago,’ written by Walter D. Moody, our Managing 
Director. This has been studied continuously, and 
70,000 copies have been printed, besides 15,000 separate 
addendas this year to bring the old books up to date. 


Four hundred and seventy-seven stereopticon lec- 
tures have been delivered to audiences aggregating 
nearly one hundred thousand people—one-eighth the 
voting population of Chicago. All of them have been 
delivered by the Chairman, the Managing Director, 
and Mr. Eugene S. Taylor, our Office Manager. 

It is noteworthy that the Commission never has 
refused any lecture invitation, nor disappointed any 
audience through non-appearance. 


“Speak the word and it makes its way of its own 
accord,” may be said of these lectures, which have been 
presented in all parts of the city and suburbs, before 
every conceivable kind of an organization, including 
the most important clubs, societies, associations, city 
council meetings, labor unions, churches and religious 
organizations, schools, fraternities, large business 
houses, public mass meetings and neighborhood gath- 
ering’. 


March is a typical monthly schedule. During that 
month thirteen lectures were delivered on the North, 
the West and the South Sides of the city as follows: 

Warren Avenue Men’s Club. 

Lower North Community Council. 

Girl's: Patriotic: service Heacne, 

Durst eeeitis tenet De 

Advertising Council, Chicago Association of Com- 

merce. 

Western Hiictency society. 

Hibbard School. 

Hamilton Park Woman’s Club. 

Bonde Wenss Glib: 

Chicago Association of Collegiate Alumnae. 

North Shore Woman’s Club. 

Medill High School. 

Standard Club. 


In 1915 motion pictures of the Plan were shown 
in fifty theatres. The motion picture theatres also co- 
operated in the bond issue campaigns. 

1030 


Plan stories in periodicals at home and abroad 
are too numerous to reeord. ‘These have appeared in 
leading publications, such as the National Geographic 
Magazine, Architectural Record of New York, Chris- 
tian Science Monitor of Boston, Baltimore Daily Eagle, 
Automobile Blue Book, the Economist, Chicago City 
Manual, Popular Mechanics, Chicago Schools Journal, 
Pine Arts Journal, Journal of the American Institute 
of Architects, Journal of the Western Society of En- 
gineers, Les Amis des Paris, Paris, France, British 
Architect of London, Rand McNally’s Chicago Guide, 
Chicago Commerce, Daily News Almanac, Philadel- 
phia Inquirer, J. Seymour Currey’s History of Chicago, 
Human Life, Detroit Saturday Night, New York Sun, 
National Municipal Review, American City Magazine, 
The Park International, Fort Dearborn Bank Maga- 
zine, and many others. 


During 1912 a record was kept, which showed 
that in that one year the Commission furnished Plan 
articles that appeared in 575 magazines, periodicals, 
trade and club publications. 


Chicago Plan articles have even permeated the 
catalogues and magazines of large business concerns, 
Marshall Field & Company making a special display 
in its retail magazine “Fashions,” and several double- 
page displays in its wholesale monthly “Field Quality 
News,” reaching 67,000 out-of-town merchants. 


The Harris Trust Company featured the Plan in 
a series of advertisements. 


The Consolidated Company—building materials— 
used twelve Plan pictures upon its 1920 monthly cal- 
endar. 


The State-Lake Theatre requested permission to 
paint the Michigan Avenue improvement on its curtain. 


Within the month requests have come for pictures 
and data for reproduction in the catalogues of C. C. 
Mitchell & Company, Chicago, Duluth & Georgian Bay 
Transit Co., Vaughan’s Seed Store, Paul G. Niehoff & 
Co., and the Greer College of Automotive Engineering. 


The National Archaeological Art Magazine, pub- 
lished in Washington, D. C., has arranged for a special 
“Chicago Issue,” to be beautifully and graphically il- 
lustrated. 


Leslie’s Magazine has recently requested a special 
story on the Lake Front development, with illustra- 
tions. 


1031 


Plan Stories 


Plan Data in 
Catalogues 
and Other 
Advertising « 
Matter 


Lantern 
Slides 


Reconstruction 
Platform 


Plan of 
Chicago Day 


Literature 
Distribution 


National 
Conference on 
City Planning 


Commission 
Headquarters 


Lantern slides inscribed “Courtesy of the Chicago 
Plan Commission” have been sent to a number of cities 
to aid the exploitation of their local plans. 

During the war the Y. M. C. A, purchased ten sets 
of slides for their educational work among American 
soldiers in France. These were accompanied by slides 
containing descriptive reading matter. When the war 
ended, these were donated to the Chicago Board of 
Education and are now being used in the schools, Pub- 
lic Library and Art Institute. 

A Chicago citizen has just left on a business trip 
through China, the West Indies, Australia, Japan, and 
a part ot Russia, Ele secured a set of these sliidecwane 
will use them to advertise Chicago in these countries. 


The Reconstruction Plattorm of the Plan:C omits 
sion, issued in December 1918, became nationally 
taimous- 


Plan of Chicago Day, Sunday, January 19, 1919; 
called “Nehemiah Day,” greatly assisted in stimulating 
a city-wide interest in the Chicago Plan. On that day 
many pastors in churches of all denominations preached 
from their pulpits on the Plan of Chicago. 

The special reports and minutes of the Commission 
have been in such demand at home and abroad that 
they are practically exhausted. 


Our literature has been sent on request to several 
hundred cities in the United States; "and=tomicaqim= 
cities in England, Germany, France, India, South Amer- 
ica, Roumania, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, 
Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Hol- 
land *ane@ocotlanc 


The cloth-bound year book of the National Con- 
ference on City Planning for 1913, containing a special 
article by Chairman Wacker on experience and pro- 
cedure, was distributed throughout the country. 

All this has resulted in making the headquarters 
of the Commission a veritable international forum of 
world visitors and a center of inquiries. 


@ Mr. Henry Barrett Chamberlin, with energy, loy- 
alty and effectiveness, acted as Secretary pro tempore 
of the Commission from its inception until the date of 
his resignation, January 13, 1911, since which time 
Mr. Walter D. Moody has been our Managing Director 
and Secretary. 

Here it appropriately may be stated that the space 
occupied by the Commission in the Hotel Sherman is 

1032 


a public-spirited contribution by the proprietors of the 
hotel, as was our former space in the Hotel La Salle. 
@ Independent of the publicity of the Commission, is 
the book “What of the City?,” by Managing Director 
Walter D. Moody, recently published by A. C. McClurg 
& Company. This includes an historical record of the 
work of The Commercial Club and the Commission on 
the Plan of Chicago. 

Pvvnat onthe City: has been adopted as a text in 
the department of city planning in Harvard University. 
It has been reviewed in a leading magazine in Paris and 
in many American periodicals and papers, and has been 
sent on request to nine foreign countries. 


@ Notable meetings that have been held were: 

The dinner of [The Commercial Club to the Com- 
mission January 8, 1910. 

The meeting of all the school principals and eighth 
Ptadeateachers. hebruary 3, 1912. 

ie dinner sto state, county, ,and city © officials 
January 24, 1913. 

The dinner to the aldermen on July 15, 1919. 

iiiiemucetme com ine Advertisino= Council, of the 
Chicago Association of Commerce March 12, 1920. At 
this meeting your officers requested the use of Plan data 
and pictures in private advertisements. 


@ The entire ten years of the Commission has been! 
a continuous and arduous campaign, but there have 
been several special and successful campaigns of mag-\ 
nitude. 

Prominent among these was the campaign to se- 
cure increased bonding power for Chicago. This cov- 
ered four months of exceedingly strenuous effort, 
Pome in April 1919 and endine on’ the day of the 
adjourment of the Legislature in July. It resulted in 
having sixty-nine bills passed in the State Legislature, 
changing the basis of assessment from one-third to 
one-half, and reducing every tax rate proportionately, 
fomruat the ainount Of taxes was not ancreased except 
peeacditiona!: taxes might be réqtired trom time’ to 
time to provide the sinking fund and interest of bonds 
issued. 

iiicestdte: ceislature passed tnese bills: solely to 
eive Chicago $27,500,000.00 increased bonding power 
to apply on Plan improvements. 

Immediately following this, the City Council in 
harmony with the purpose of this legislation, by a vote 
of 58 to O placed $28,600,000.00 of bond issue proposi- 

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What of 
the City? 


Notable 
Meetings 


Campaigns 


State 
Legislature 


City Council 
Action 


Bond Issue 
Campaigns 


New and Un- 
finished Matters 


River 
Straightening 


Relief 
Needed 


Street 
Openings 


Result of River 
Straightening 


tions for Chicago Plan improvements on the little bal- 
lot at the election of November 4, 1919. 

1919 will stand out as a campaign year in the his- 
tory of the Commission, nearly the entire year being 
spent in the legislative campaign and in the succeeding 
campaigns to assure the passage of the bond issues. 


The campaign prior to the November 4th election 
was most completely organized. It resulted in all of the 
six Plan proposals being adopted by majorities ranging 
from 93,000 to 104,000. 

In February, 1920, the Commission made the cam- 
paign for the $20,000,000 lake front bond proposals of 
the South Park Commissioners. These were passed by 
the voters in the South Park district at the election 
February 24th by a vote of two and three-quarters to 
one. 


@ Aside from the postoffice site appropriation, a num- 
ber of Plan projects are receiving the attention of the 
officers and technical staff. Finished studies of certain 
of them have been made. 


@ Straightening the Chicago River between Polk and 
16th Streets is as important to Chicago as any other 
Plan project. 

This was definitely recommended by the Commis- 
sion in its Reconstruction Platform. 


Relief must be had from the present congestion in 
Michigan and Wabash Avenues and State Street. The 
time is not far distant when this will not be a serious 
menace but a calamity. 

Then too, intensive development in the large ter- 
ritory affected can only be had by creating conditions 
which will allow the city to expand normally where it 
is now shut in and squalid. 


The only way Franklin, Wells, Market, La Salle 
and Dearborn Streets can be opened as through thor- 
oughfares and connected with the great southwest di- 
agonal Archer Avenue is by straightening the river. 

If this is not done, that vast section, fringing upon 
the intensively developed central section, will forever 
remain dwarfed and stunted, and the loss to surround- 
ing property and to traffic will be incalculable. 


When the river is straightened, the streets cut 
through, and the terminal features properly adjusted, 
a great rise in property values will take place, a large 
area will be open to business development, the traffic 

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Rogers Avenue 
Indian Boundary 
Road 


Outer Lake 
Front 
Connection 


Michigan Avenue 
Plazas 


system will be safe from disaster and attractive cond1- 
tions throughout will be secured. 

The river straightening and co-ordinated matters 
have been in the jurisdiction of the Railway Terminal 
Commission, but the time is at hand when the Plan 
Commission should become actively identified with this 
ereat problem of first and increasing importance to the 
whole city. 


@ Also of great importance is the new outer circuit 
from Lake Michigan on the North Side, via Thorndale, 
Elmdale, Peterson and Rogers Avenue, and the Balti- 
more and Ohio abandoned right of way along the line 
of the old Indian Boundary (already acquired) and 
along the Des Plaines River road through forest pre- 
serves south, returning again to the lake at 134th 
Street. This was recommended by our Commission in 
its Reconstruction Platform. 


The outer connection between Lincoln and Grant 
Parks should not be delayed. Grand Boulevard will 
be extended north via widened South Park Avenue and 
across the new Lake Front Park and Grant Park to 
Randolph Street. But to complete the connectioms 
must be extended from Randolph Street north across 
the mouth of the river to the Municipal Pier. Michigan 
Avenue, even with the improved section open, will be 
badly congested. The outer drive will carry the through 
traffic now confined to Michigan Avenue. The mrst 
step to this accomplishment is a permit from the War 
Department for the bridge, which is receiving the at- 
tention of your officers. 


@ = = An unfinished matter of importance in connection 
with the Michigan Avenue improvement is the treat- 
ment of the plazas. [t would be a mistake Oia mesma 
magnitude if both plazas are not decorated in an im- 
pressive manner commemorative of their historical 
sifnificance: Lhe south plaza is the site of Hortaigeqn. 
born and the north plaza the site of the first house in 
Chicasoethatomlohnewiizic: 

The officers have this matter in mind for early pre- 
sentation to the directors of the Ferguson Fund, which 
fund was bequeathed by B. F. Ferguson exclusively for 
the erection and maintenance of enduring statuary and 
monuments in the parks, along the boulevards and 
other public places in Chicago, to commemorate worthy 
Americans and important events of American history. 

The future of Michigan Avenue—one of the most 
noted thoroughfares in the world—should be fostered 

1936 


by a Michigan Avenue association, similar to the North 
Central Association (now functioning between Ran- 
dolph Street and Chicago Avenue), just as Fifth Av- 
enue in New York is safeguarded by the Fifth Avenue 
Association. 


€ Improvements the Commission is now studying 
are: 


The improvement of Thirty-ninth Street, extend- 
ing that thoroughfare westward over several railroad 
systems and making new cuttings to connect Lake 
Michigan with the forest preserves and the new Mc- 
Cormick Zoological Gardens. 


The widening of Polk Street and plans for the re- 
arrangement of railroad tracks to permit an east-and- 
west viaduct connection at Wells Street, thus creating 
another much needed east-and-west through artery. 


The opening of Congress Street, and the Civic Cen- 
ter plans. 


Study has been given the need for co-ordinating 
the national, state, county and municipal departments 
malwolices atone point, 

Efficiency and economy will be gained by the uni- 
fication of governmental activities in one locality. The 
various offices have much business in common and their 
activities are intermingled in various ways. 


Scattering governmental agencies broadcast 
throughout the city causes a large loss of time and 
money. The State of Illinois alone has 27 separate of- 
fices in Chicago, distributed throughout a territory a 
mile wide and six miles long, occupying 58,193 square 
feet of office space and costing Illinois taxpayers nearly 


B7W0U sa year. 


It is well known that the new city hall was out- 
grown before it was ready for occupancy. The city now 
rents nine outside quarters at an annual cost of $42,- 


900.00. 


In the near future the county will need much more 
space as the county building is now filled to capacity. 


The Federal Building is taxed to the utmost and 
the Post Office department could not function were it 
not for the 114,260 square feet of space rented for fa- 
cilities which properly should be centralized in a single 
building. 

Zoning—cooperation with the new Zoning Com- 
mission. 

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Thirty-ninth 
Street 


Polk Street 


Congress Street 


Civic Center 


State Offices 


City Hall 


County Building 


Federal Building 


Zoning 


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Housing 


Boulevards 
Along Drain- 
age Canal 


New Parks 


Unsubdivided 
Sections 


State Street Con- 


nection with 
Roosevelt Road 


Tower Court 


Minor Street 
Improvements 


Bridges 


Constitutional 
Convention 


An ordinance for the creation of a Zoning Com- 
mission was passed by the City Council February 18, 
1920, and the Commission is now awaiting appointment 
by the Mayor. The ordinance designates Chairman 
Charles H. Wacker as a member of the Zoning Com- 
mission. 


Housing—Continued support and encouragement 
of the important housing question. 


Boulevards along the Drainage Canal—A study 
of this subject in cooperation with the Sanitary Dis- 
trict is now being made by our technical staff. 


The question of acquiring parks in districts distant 
from existing parks and forest preserves should be 
taken up immediately. There are districts in which 
the development is very rapid and values are still low. 
If this is not promptly attended to a situation will arise 
which will make it either impossible to acquire desirable 
areas, or the prices will be prohibitive. 


Co-ordination of unsubdivided sections with the 
Plan of Chicago—a matter of increasing importance. 


Connection of State Street with Roosevelt Road 
(Twelfth Street) viaduct, now being studied in connec- 
tion with the Polk Street improvement and the entire 
complicated terminal area of that important section. 


The proper treatment of the area surrounding the 
waterworks tower at Tower Court in connection with 
the Michigan Avenue improvement. 


Minor street improvements are: 

Opening of /7lst Street, between Cottage Grove 
and Stony Island Avenue—ordinance now pending in 
the City Council. 

Opening of Indiana Avenue, between 
116th Streets—now pending in court. 

Extension of Torrence Avenue from 130thioerees 
to 138th Street—pending before the Board of Local 
Improvements. 


Pl there 


The city continues to consult our technical staff 
in the design of new bridges, street lights, poles and 
other municipal matters. 

This budget of unfinished matters with recommen- 
dations will be submitted in due season to the whole 
Commission for action. | 


@ Several important legislative matters which vitally 

concern Plan work are receiving the attention of our 

officers and our legal counsel Mr. Henry P. Chandler, 
1038 


and former Assistant Corporation Counsel Eugene H. 
Dupee, a member of the Convention. 

punGsesale: 

Excess condemnation. 

Zoning. 

Increased bonding power. | 

Proposals covering these have been introduced in 
the Constitutional Convention by Delegate Dupee. 
After being reviewed by your Executive Committee 
they will be brought before the Commission for action. 
@ Although the Chicago Plan Commission is a per- ras ps 

5 ‘ ommission 

manent department of the city government, and its _ Finances 
members are appointed by the Mayor and approved by 
Prem ity. Gouncil. it has received from the city for its 
maintenance in the past ten years only $100,000.00. 
If the members of The Commercial Club had not con- 
tributed $167,594.99 during that period, our work could 
not have been successfully carried on, and little or 
nothing could have been accomplished on the Plan of 
Chicago. 


ERRATA does not include the 

The Commercial Club contribution ).00) nor the amount 
figures should read _ $167,549.99; : 

$85,000.00; $52,500.00; with a grand )) before the Commis- 


total of $305,049.99. 


Including an item of $12,050.00, subscribed for rr 
1920, but not yet due, The Commercial Club has con-  Gontribution 
tributed a total amount of $303,100.00 for the Plan of 
Chicago. 

It is doubtful if any office, private or public, ever 
has managed its affairs with so meager funds and ac- 


complished so much as has this Commission. 


See iis report,o1 the progress of. the ‘Chicago Plan Sa 
coer’ : : ub 

Commission would truly be incomplete and like an 

arch without a keystone unless grateful recognition is 

accorded The Commercial Club of Chicago for form- 

ulating the Chicago Plan and presenting it to the City 

O01 Chicago in 1909. 

In preparing this plan no money was spared and 
the best expert talent obtainable was secured, with the 
result that the work is recognized the world over as 
the best and most complete of its kind ever produced. 

Not only have these hard-headed business men, so 
greatly interested individually and collectively in the 
commercial and industrial growth of our city, contrib- 
uted of their money but also liberally of their valuable 
time. 7 

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22 


Club Member- 
ship on Plan 
Commission 


Widespread 
Influence of 
Commission 


Three City 
Administrations 


Busse Ad- 
ministration 


Twelve Commercial Club members are on the Ex- 
ecutive Committee of the Plan Commission and thirty- 
five are on the main commission (not including the five 
who died within the last two years), making a total 
of 47 out of an active and associate membership of 110. 
The public spirit of The Commercial Club will live in 
history as long as Chicago stands, and its civic pride 
will ever shine in undimmed splendor as an  unsur- 
passed example of unselfish devotion to the public weal. 

Amefican cities are interdependent. The influence 
of the Commission has not been confined solely to 
Chicago. It has radiated to every section of the United 
States. 

A most gratifying result of this was expressed 
by Honorable Edward M. Bassett, Chairman of the 
New York City Zoning Commission, when he ad- 
dressed the members: of the City" Council of G@hicaen 
on December 17, 1919. He then said: 


@ “The very inception of zoning that resulted in the 
law of New York City was in this city of Chicago 
seven years ago at a national conference on city plan- 
ning. New York in the past has learned from Chicago 
more on these subjects than Chicago has ever learned 
from New York.” 


@ This report also would be incomplete indeed if 
it failed to include special reference to and marked ap- 
preciation for the cordial and exceedingly effective per- 
sonal and official cooperation of Mayor Fred A. Busse, 
Mayor Carter H. Harrison and Mayor William Hale 
Thompson, and the splendid aid of the members of their 
administrations, including all departments thereof. 
Each in his turn advanced the Plan of Chicago. 


q@ In the administration of Mayor Fred A. Busse, 
from 1907 to 1911, the Plan Commission was authorized 
and appointed. 

January 3, 1910, the City Council, by unanimous 
vote, passed an ordinance for widening Michigan Ay- 
enue to 130 feet between Jackson Boulevard and Ran- 
dolph Street. A certified copy of the ordinance was 
promptly forwarded to the South Park Commissioners, 
and they immediately began work and finished it dur- 
ting that year., This was the first constructive work 
that this Commission accomplished, and it served as 
an effective object lesson in later securing the Michigan 
Avenue extension northward. 

The Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street) improve- 
ment was provided for in the passage of the ordinance. 

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FRED A. BUSSE 
Born 1866—Died 1914 


@ The administration of Mayor Carter H. Harrison, 
from 1911 to 1915, was a period of much Plan work in 
the making. 

It included: 

The successful termination of the West Side rail- 
way terminal negotiations providing for $6,000,000.00 
of Plan improvements at the expense of the railway 
companies. 

The passage of the final Michigan Avenue exten- 
sion ordinance. 

Starting court action in the Roosevelt Road 
(Twelfth Street) widening, including spreading the 
assessment and obtaining the consents of twelve rail- 
way companies and the Sanitary District. 

Starting hearings on the Lake Front plans, and 
adoption of the harmonized plan which formed the 
basis of the present Illinois Central-Lake Front ordi- 
nance. 


@ The administration of Mayor William Hale 
Thompson, starting in 1915, has been a period of actual 
construction and of unstinted aid in carrying our 
recommendations to fruition. 

It included: 

Completing the Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street) 
trial and improvement. 

Conducting the Michigan Avenue extension trial 
and completing the improvement. 

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Harrison Ad- 
ministration 


Thompson Ad- 
ministration 


23 


24 


City Councils 


Newspaper 
Cooperation 


Assistance 
of Other 
Organizations 


Public Support 
of Plan 


Daniel Hudson 
Burnham 


Supervision of the construction of the improvements 
in the West Side terminal ordinances. 
Passage of Illinois Central-Lake Front ordinance. 
Public hearings, adoption of plans and ordinances 
for the improvement of Ogden, Western and Ashland 
Avenues and Robey and South Water Streets. 


@ The City Council, during each of these administra- 
tions, has sensed the needs of the city and cordially 
and effectively cooperated with our Commission. It 
has taken favorable action on every recommendation 
we submitted to it. 


@ Co-ordinated with this and not of secondary im- 
portance has been the truly remarkable support of the . 
press, reportorially, editorially and pictorially. We 
have ever with grateful thanks acknowledged our de- 
pendence upon the press and its ever ready response to 
our needs. 

Nor should the opportunity pass without appre- 
ciative recognition of the conspicuously able and ag 
gressive work of Michael J. Faherty, President of the 
Board of Local Improvements. 


@ Recognition is here recorded of the valuable assist- 
ance rendered by women’s clubs, civic, social, business, 
religious, and labor organizations, and all factions of 
political parties which have had so important a part 
in advancing the Chicago Plan. 

Never have we failed to enlist the hearty coopera- 
tion of men and women in all walks of life for a greater 
and better Chicago. 


The citizens of Chicago, by their bond issue votes 
in ever largely increasing majorities, have helped im- 
measurably to improve their larger home. Our efforts 
and those of the public authorities would show no rec- 
ord of accomplishment without the intelligent and sym- 
pathetic grasp by our citizens of the things for which 
the Plan of Chicago stands. And it is the more signifi- 
cant that this great work has beén supported by the 
people in the face of The Great War and the burdens 
it imposed. 


@ It now becomes our very great pleasure to express 
to you, the members of the Chicago Plan Commission, 
our most grateful appreciation for your ten years of 
unstinted devotion and loyal support. 


@ Daniel Hudson Burnham, author of the Plan of 
Chicago, died ins ecidelberso.=Germang iti bee 
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DANIEL HUDSON BURNHAM 
Born 1846—Died 1912 


Burnham did not live to see the first spade of earth 
turned for the Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street) im- 
provement. Elis death occurred even before this 1m- 
provement was brought to trial in court. 

Burnham passed beyond without sharing in the 
delight of a single achievement (with the exception of 
the Michigan Avenue widening between Jackson 
Boulevard and Randolph Street) of the twelve accomp- 
ouiments= weeate privilesed to teport today asa 
result of the great work created by his master mind. 


The Plan Commission on July 16, 1912, adopted a 
memorial resolution, which was engrossed and pre- 
sented to the family of Mr. Burnham. 


And it adopted a resolution requesting the South 
Park Commissioners to name the new lake front park 
bemveem Grant and -Jackson, Parks “Burnham Park,” 
in commemoration of his benefaction to Chicago. 


Now that work upon this park has begun, the 
Commission recently requested the South Park Com- 
missioners to name imnrediately the new park “Burn- 


ham Park.’ 


Sieelne destiny of Chicago is assured: The door of 
its future is open. Our city has crossed the threshold 
and will never step back over it. 
Srenedieahasebcenecast.. lhe Chicago Plan Com- 
mision is at work, and many of the great Plan of Chi- 
cago projects are under construction. City administra- 
tions will change; men of power will come and go; faults 
will be found and remedied; and delays and setbacks 
will overtake the Plan; but through all these the great 
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Memorial 
Resolution 


Burnham Park 


Destiny of 
Chicago 


25 


26 


Plan of Chicago will continue to wend its way to ulti- 
mate completion. And neither war, nor pestilence, nor 
panic, nor time will serve to efface that which has al- 
ready been started or prevent the complete realization 
of that which is proposed.” 


@ This report and recapitulation are respectfully sub- 
mitted with the request that they be adopted by the 
Commission and preserved in its archives. 

And that they be transmitted by the Chairman to 
The Commercial Club of Chicago with the suggestion 
that they be made a part of its permanent records. 


The Executive Committee 


CHARLES” H.: WACKER: FRANK I. BENNETT, 
Chairman Vice Chairman 


WALTER D- MOODY, 
Managing Director 


Ae ae De LOH a WM. NELSON PELOUZE 
EDWARD B. BUTLER JOHN POWERS 
CLYDE M. CARR JULIUS ROSENWALD 
JOHN J. COUGHLIN DANIEL J. SCHUYLER 
FREDERIC A. DELANO JAMES SIMPSON 

JOHN V. FARWELL JOHN F. SMULSKI 
ALBERT J. FISHER CHARLES H. THORNE 
THEODORE K. LONG HARRY A, WHEELER 
JOY MORTON WALTER H. WILSON 


MICHAEL ZIMMER 


CHATRMAN WACKER: This, entlemens is=(heene)0 Game 
have to make. The “recapitulation” is an-accurate record of alimnar 
has occurred in connection with each improvement, showing the 
dates of the ordinances, by what majorities they were passed, every 
bond issue campaign, with the majorities that were given for each 
bond issue, and is an historical synopsis. 

This report was unanimously adopted at a meeting of your 
Executive Committee, which was held in Room F, Hotel Sherman, 
‘Tuesday, Aprimoths 1020. 

A motion to adopt this report is now in order. 


WLR EV ERE PIC. BROWN: lso-moves Mr -Ghoamcoiare 


MR. HENRY BARRETT CHAMBERIEIUN=: ]Ssseconc meee 
motion. 

CHAIRMAN WACKER: Mr. Brown moves and Mr. Chamber- 
lin seconds the motion that the report as read be adopted. Are you 
ready for the question? All in favor of the motion will please say 


“aye”; those opposed “no”. The motion is unanimously carried. 


MR. HARRY A. WHEELER: As a member of the Chicago 
Plan Commission, I should like to see embodied in this report of 
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“Ten Years Work of the Chicago Plan Commission’, an -appropri- 
ate recognition of the service that has been rendered to the Chicago 
Plan Commission and to the City of Chicago by the Chairman of 
this Commission. Unless some personality, having a vision and em- 
bracing an ideal, and carrying that ideal forward, had taken hold 
of this proposition, the work of [The Commercial Club and all the 
rest of it would necessarily have come to naught, and I believe in 
finishing ten years of work it would be highly appropriate for this 
Commission to record its grateful appreciation of the sacrifice and 
Pieseitort.which has been made by oar Chairman; Charles H. 
Wacker, having the resolutions properly engrossed for delivery to 
him, and embodying it as a part of the report made by the Executive 
Committee. 


I, therefore, move, Mr. Chairman, that a committee of three, 
Mr. James Simpson, Mr. Theodore W. Robinson, and Mr. Frank I. 
Bennett, be appointed a committee to draft such resolutions, and 
upon drafting them, to have them embodied as a part of this report. 
(Applause. ) 


CHAIRMAN WACKER: May I say one word in regard to 
that? Gentlemen, | greatly appreciate what has just been proposed. 
However, I would much preter not to have the motion made a part 
of this report. I could have accomplished nothing without the 
splendid support that I have had from the members of this Commis- 
sion, and from every one upon whom I have called for assistance. 
Very few.names are mentioned, although many deserve to be, in 
fact, so many that it was found impracticable to record them. 

‘heretore, | feel and [ feel sincerely that the motion ‘should 
not prevail, because so many other people are entitled to credit in 
this work, and are not recorded for the reason I have stated. 


Dikee tt eeN Wotee ot be RID Mire Vice-Chairman, «I “arisé: to 
second the motion made by Mr. Wheeler that a committee be ap- 
pointed to draft an appropriate resolution as a part of this report, 
relating to the service of Mr. Wacker as the Chairman of this Com- 
mission, during this decade that we are celebrating today. Without 
his undaunted spirit and persistent industry, as well as his wonder- 
ful personality, with which he is so endowed, and which he projects 
into his work, this work never would have been carried on, and it 
seems most appropriate that his leadership be recognized as Mr. 
Wheeler’s motion contemplates. 


(The question was called for.) 


Vel Celi MOAN RUN Ke Le BEN NETS Tl willeput the 
motion, gentlemen. All in favor of the motion say “aye”. Those 
against “no’’. It is unanimously adopted. 


CHAIRMAN WACKER: I thank you, gentlemen. 
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The testimonial to Mr. Wacker which was prepared by the 
committee is as follows: 

As a great vision, came the Plan of Chicago. 

As the prophet of the Plan, Opportunity called Charles H. 

Wacker. 

Born in Chicago, for years a part of the energy which has con- 
tributed to its greatness, he was chosen to translate into practical 
achievement the vision of the architect. 

Untiring, patient, tolerant, and with rare qualities of leadership, 
Charles H. Wacker has carried forward the Plan until it is now 
an integral part, a recognized institution of the City. 

Its material creations are beautifully visible, while its economic 
and spiritual possibilities are unlimited. 

In grateful recognition of the unselfish, loyal and patriotic de- 
votion of this master builder, the members of the Chicago Plan 
Commission, representing the people of Chicago, at the completion 
of its tenth year of activity, unanimously cause this minute to be 
spread upon the records of the Commission, and a copy thereof to 
be engrossed and presented to Charles H. Wacker, its Chairman, 
and most faithful servant. 

Chicago, April Ninth, Nineteen Hundred Twenty. 

MR. ALEXANDER H. REVELL: Mr. Chairman, in line with 
the very proper action which has just been taken, I wish to offer a 
similar motion, which I will read: 

Since January 13, 1911, Mr. Walter D. Moody has been Man- 
aging Director of the Chicago Plan Commission. In this position 
he has worked with a complete and wholesouled devotion of him- 
self, mind and heart, that has been an inspiration to his associates. 
Sound judgment and tact, indefatigable energy, unswerving loyal- 
ty and faith that overcomes obstacles, glowing enthusiasm—all 
these qualities he has shown, and with them all, imagination that 
has enabled him always to see the goal ahead, and to guide us 
towards it. The idealism of Walter D. Moody has been a highly 
important factor in the success which the Chicago Plan Commis- 
sion has attained. 


THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the members or 
the Chicago Plan Commission, in meeting assembled, that 
from their hearts they express their appreciation of Mr. 
Moody’s devoted service, and acknowledge the deep obligation 
which not only the Commission, but the City of Chicago owes 
to him for its progress towards a larger and a better city life. 
I move the adoption of that resolution, Mr. Chairman. 

MR. CHAMBERLIN: I second that motion, Mr. Chairman. 
CHAIRMAN WACKER: I am very glad that a motion of this 
kind was made; and I desire to have this Commission know that I 
approve everything that has been said in the resolution just read. 
I have worked with Mr. Moody during all that time, day and night. 
I have never found him wanting. I have always found an aggres- 
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sive spirit, zeal beyond measure, and a willingness to work that of- 
ten was a surprise to me. I have also received from him—and I de- 
sire to have that known—much of the inspiration which I may have 
evidenced, and I am glad and happy to know that this resolution 
has been presented. 

Gentlemen, you have heard the resolution. Are you ready for 
the question? 
(The question was called for.) 


CHAIRMAN WACKER: All who favor the resolution will 
please signify by saying “aye”. Those opposed “no”. The motion 


is unanimously carried. 


ae, 


MANAGING DIRECTOR WALTER D. MOODY: Gentle- 


men, [ am sincerely sorry you have dimmed the tribute to our Chair- 
man, which, perhaps, I know as well if not better than any man in 
Chicago, he so! richly deserves, by including a resolution of such 
bountiful thanks in recognition of my service. I have’faced a good 
many audiences on the Plan of Chicago without embarrassment, 
but it is a difficult thing for me to face you and tell you how much 
I appreciate your confidence and support as expressed in this reso- 
lution. 

It has been a very great privilege to me and a very great honor 
and it would be a very great honor and a very great privilege to any 
man, to serve in advancing the Chicago Plan. It has been a very 
great privilege for me to work with you, gentlemen, and to enjoy the 
confidence and support you have given me at all times, but especial- 
ly has it been a privilege for me to serve with Mr. Wacker. Itisa 
privilege for any man to work with Mr. Wacker. He has not only 
been my superior officer but he has been my friend and I think I 
have a keen sense of the value of the word “friend”. I would like 
foesay more bute! cannot. All I can.do is to thank you for your 
kindness. (Applause.) | 


CHAIRMAN WACKER: If there is nothing else to come be- 
fore the meeting a motion to adjourn will be in order. 


MR. CHARLES H. THORNE: I move we adjourn, Mr. Chair- 


man. 
MR. BROWN: I second the motion. 


The meeting adjourned at 2:30 P. M. 





Managing Director. 


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MICHIGAN AVENUE—FROM PARK ROW 1864. 
(Originally owned by the Chicago Historical Society.) 


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Status of Plan of Chicago Improvements 
Recapituation of Ten Years Work 


of the 


CHICAGO PLAN COMMISSION 


1909—1919 





Original Chicago Plan general map, showing 198 miles of street improvements, parks, boulevards, a 
rehabilitation of the transportation system and the lake front development, 


Roosevelt Road 


Ordinance 
Passed 


The Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street) widening 
recommendation of the Chicago Plan Commission was 
made to the city authorities on January 19, 1910. 


The ordinance was passed by the City Council 
April 5, 1911, by a vote of 46 to 10, at the closing 
meeting of the Fred A. Busse administration. 

This ordinance provided for widening Roosevelt 
Road from 66 feet to 108 feet between Ashland Avenue 
and Wabash Avenue, a distance of two miles. The 
widening was entirely on the south side of the street. 

The improvement included a viaduct 118 feet wide, 
between Canal Street and Wabash Avenue, and a new 
bridge across the river. 

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32 


Purpose of 
Improvement 


Zone of 
Assessment 


Bond Issues 


Court Trial 











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Roosevelt Road before improvement. 


Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street) is the southern 
boundary of the central quadrangle in the Plan of 
Chicago. This quadrangle is composed of Roosevelt 


Road on the south, Canal Street on the west, South 


Water Street on the north, and Michigan Avenue on 
the east. The purpose of the quadrangle is to provide 
an adequate, free circulatory traffic medium surround- 
ing the heart of the city, and to allow the loop district 
to expand from its present area of one-quarter of a 
square mile to one and one-half square miles adapted 
to intensive development. 

Appraising the values, determining the zone of as- 
sessment and other court preliminaries, were accom- 
plished in the Carter H. Harrison administration be- 
tween 1911 and 1915. 

The negotiations necessary to bring this case to 
trial were complicated, arduous and long drawn-out. 
These included the obtaining of consents of twelve 
railroads and the co-operation of the Sanitary District 
Trustees. 


The zone of assessment covered an area of ten 
square miles, embracing the district between Harrison 
and 22nd Streets, the Lake and Cicero Avenue. 

Thirty-four thousand pieces of property were as- 
sessed and 302 pieces were taken for the widening. 


The first bond issue of $1,750,000.00 was passed 
on November 5, 1912, by a majority of 21,787. 

The second issue of $1,200,000.00 was passed on 
April.1) 1919) by ammajorityot Ol, 345) 3 


This case was brought to trial during the Carter 
H. Harrison administration and finished in the William 
Hale Thompson administration. The court hearings 
began on November 27, 1914, and a favorable decision 
was had on June 14, 1916. 


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The actual widening was begun on August 25, 
1916. It was completed to Canal Street and between 
State Street and Michigan Avenue on December 20, 
1917. 


Upon completion of this part of the widening a 
great demonstration took place. It was estimated that 
100,000 people in that vicinity thronged the streets to 


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Widening 
Work 


Celebration 



































Roosevelt Road Improvement When Completed. 


witness the parade and listen to addresses by his Honor, 
the Mayor, the Chairman of the Plan Commission, 


and others. 
The work of building the viaduct and bridge, now 


under construction, was held up during the war. 
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34 


Extension 
East of 
Michigan 
Avenue 


Cost 


Michigan 
Avenue 


Original 
Ordinance 


Purpose 


Widening 


The extension of Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street ) 
east of Michigan Avenue to connect with the Field 
Columbian Museum and the new Illinois Central Rail- 
road terminal is provided for in the Illinois Central- 
Lake Front ordinance covering the general lake front 
development. 


The cost of the Roosevelt Road improvement was 
$8,303,284.93. 
It was provided for as follows: 
Public cost by bonds........$2,950,000.00 
Special Assessments for 
enettses soe 2,028,334.93 
Bridgesbondsissttces ae 933,600.00 
Railroad companies’ 
SHaTetet ae es 1,791,350.00 
Sanitary District... 600,000.00 


SEO Tall yee ote ee ee 
The expense was divided as follows: 
Gandeande buildings... $3,259,708.18 


$8,303.284.93 


Bid oe sania ay aera 1,533,600.00 
Vig diictekc ccna oe 2,988,000.00 
Paving, sidewalks Vetci= 9021597075 
otal ee et ene $8,303.284.93 


@ The first constructive work of the Commission was 
in connection with the widening of Michigan Avenue 
to 130 feet between Jackson Boulevard and Randolph 
Street, the ordinance for which was unanimously 
passed by the City Council January 3, 1910. This widen- 
ing served as an effective object lesson in later securing 
the Michigan Avenue extension northward. 

The recommendation for the Michigan Avenue ex- 
tension north of Randolph Street was made by the 
Plan Commission on July 10, 1911. 


The widening ordinance was passed by the City 
Council on July 14, 1913, by a vote of 57 to 7, during 
the Carter H. Harrison administration. 

Michigan Avenue is the eastern boundary of the 
quadrangle. 

This improvement is on the two-level plan for the 
purpose of separating the east-and-west and north- 
and-south traffic in the most congested spot in the city. 

The widening was from 66 feet to 130 feet be- 
tween Randolph Street and the river, and to 141 feet 
north from the river to Chicago Avenue, a total dis- 
tance of about one mile. 

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Michigan Avenue north of Randolph Street Before Improvement. 


The upper level extends from building line to 
building line from Lake Street to Ohio Street, a dis- 
tance of one-half mile. 


























Michigan Avenue widened north of Randolph Street, 


Passing east-and-west beneath the upper level ct re 
are South Water, River, North Water, Kinzie, Illinois, 
and Austin Streets and Grand-Avenue. These east- 
and-west thoroughfares, bearing a heavy teaming trat- 
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36 


fic, serve the railway terminals on the lake front, 
and the West Side terminal and warehouse district. 





Old Rush Street bridge, to be replaced by new Michigan Avenue bridge. 


Bridge The two-level bascule bridge is 235 feet long and 
90 feet wide. It is flanked by plazas approximately 225 








New Michigan Avenue bascule bridge with upper level for light traffic and lower level for heavy vehicles, 


feet square on the upper and lower levels at both the 
north and south approaches. 


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The widening was made on the east side south of 
the river and on the west side of what was formerly 
Pine Street north of the river. 

The work of determining the value of the property 
to be taken was started in the Harrison administration 
and carried out in the first Thompson administration. 


The first ordinance was defective on account of 
technical errors. ‘This necessitated passing a second 
ordinance which was done on March 23, 1914, by a vote 


of 62 to 0. 


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Michigan Avenue Improvement When Completed. 


The zone of assessment covered five square miles 
between North Avenue, 3lst Street, Lake Michigan 
and Clark Street (north of the river) and State Street 
(south of the river). 

8,700 pieces of property were assessed for benefits 
and 51 pieces were taken for the widening. 


The case was brought to trial on February 14, 1916, 
and the assessment confirmed on March 2, 1918. 


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Final Ordinance 


Zone of 
Assessment 


Court Trial 


38 


Celebration 


Various Aids 


Date of 
Completion 


Cost 


The first building was torn down April 13, 1918, 
when a public demonstration was held at Washington 
Park. Here a large crowd gathered to listen to ad- 
dresses by his Honor Mayor William Hale Thompson, 
Michael J. Faherty, President of the Board of Local 
Improvements, Corporation Counsel Samuel A. Ettel- 
son, Alderman.Henry D. Capitain, and. Chairman 
Charles H. Wacker of the Commission. 


The Lincoln Park Board, cooperating with the 
city, relinquished its jurisdiction over Pine Street. 

The Ilhnois Central Railroad Company, by re- 
linquishing certain rights, hastened the improvement. 

The North Central Association, composed of prop- 
erty owners, from the start was an-imporaie deus 
in the succéss of the improvement: 


The construction work was delayed by the war, 
strikes, and insufficient finances due to increased cost 
of material and labor. According to contract, the work 
will be finished and the street opened May 15, 1920. 


The cost of the Michigan Avenue improvement 
was $14,896,892.96. 
It was provided as follows: 
First. public® bond ~‘ssue; 
passed November 5, 1914, 
by a majority of 78,846......$3,800,000.00 
Second issue, passed Novy- 
ember 5, 1918, by a major- 
liv. 43 003 =ee ee 3,000,000.00 
Third issue, passed Novem- 
ber 4, 1919, by a majority 
OloLOO sa 7ar et mame ies 2 ,000,000.00 
Votalyctite ce nee $ 8,800,000.00 
First special assessment........$3,412,957.71 
First supplemental 





ASSCSSTITEN ta. ee ee ee 2,683,935.25 
A BeyeNigwineen dart oe 6,096,892.96 
Grand Total ........... | $14,896,892.96 
The cost was divided as follows: : 
Mandtand buildings. ee. $5,428,884.00 
Brid SCs eee weree eos 2,398,752.00 
Upper level structure .................. 5,287 887.00 
Paving ohio eet Cease 1,781 ,369.96 
Total ahi ee $14,896,892.96 


@ Negotiations for the reconstruction of the West 
Side passenger and freight terminals of the Chicago, 











West Side 
Railway 
Terminals 














Present Union Station. 


Milwaukee & St. Paul, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, 
Pennsylvania Lines, and Chicago & Alton Railroad » 




















New Union Station under construction, 


companies were begun August 1912 in the Carter H. 
Harrison administration. 
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40 


Conclusion of 
Negotiations 


City Benefits 





They terminated when the City Council Railway 
Terminal Committee recommended the ordinances 
which were passed by the City Council March 23, 1914, 
Dyscuny Olen 01205) 1080: 


This huge undertaking was settled in a manner em- 
inently satisfactory and creditable to the city, the rail- 
roads and all participants. 


The public hearings in the Council Committee, 
lasting nearly a year, were painstaking and thorough. 


In exchange for the valuable franchise rights 
sought by the railroad companies the city received 
$6,000,000.00 in street, bridge and viaduct improve- 
ments as recommended by the Plan Commission, and 


$1,500,000.00 in cash for vacated thoroughfares. 











West Side Passenger Terminals when completed and Post Office Site between the two depots on Canal Street, 


Citizen’s 
Terminal 
Plan 
Committee 


Railroad 
Plans 


In this. settlement the city was also aided in a 
foremost way by the Citizens’ ‘Terminal Plan Commit- 
tee, headed by Alfred L. Baker. This voluntary com- 
mittee was composed of business men who contributed 
the money to furnish the city with the expert legal 
counsel Walter L. Fisher and the “expert “techni 
counsel Bion J. Arnold. 


The negotiations were based on the plans of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Lines. This company proposed 
an elevated freight track structure ending in a ware- 
house terminal which was to occupy the area needed 
for the West Side civic center plans in the Plan of Chi- 
cago. | 

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This was in the pathway of the opening of Con- 


gress Street which is the leading east-and-west axis in 
the Plan. 











Unimproved Pennsylvania freight terminal site. 


On May 21, 1913, the Plan Commission authorized 
the officers and technical staff to submit their plans to 
the Council Committee on Railway Terminals. 











New Pennsylvania freight terminal now completed. 


The officers and technical staff under the direction 
of our Consultant E. H. Bennett, opposed this freight 
encroachment, and the location of the passenger term- 
inal at the intersection of Jackson Boulevard and Canal 
mireet, 


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Position of 
Plan Officials 





41 


Contract 
Ordinances 


Concessions 


River 
Straightening 


Railway 
Terminal 
Commission 


Plan 
Improvements 
To Be Made 
At Railroad 
Expense 


The officers and technical staff insisted that the 
passenger station should be located on Roosevelt Road 
(Twelfth Street) at Canal Street. 

Of seventeen recommendations this alone was de- 
feated. 

The contract ordinances provided that the work 
should be finished in five years or in 1919, but on ac- 
count of the war this was extended three years, or un- 
gh REP: 

During the City Council hearings, the officers and 
technical staff were invited to submit their arguments 


on May 24, 1913. 


At this hearing Chairman. Charles a (Wacken 
of the Plan Commission presented the concessions the 
city should demand from the railroads and recom- 
mended the river straightening and the opening of 
Market, Franklin, Wells, La Salle and Dearborn Streets 
through the closed railroad area. 


The problem of straightening the river and open- 
ing these streets, bound up as they are in the terminal 
situation, showed the necessity for an expert body to 
study the whole question of the remaining terminals on 
the South Side. It was generally understood the plan 
of the Illinois Central Railroad Company would: be 
taken care of in the lake front settlement. ! 


There followed the appointment May 25, 1914, of 
the Railway Terminal Commission by Mayor Carter 
H. Harrison as authorized by the City Council March 
23, 1914. 

The terminal plans of the railway companies em- 
braced the construction of the Union Station, the Penn- 
sylvania freight terminal and warehouse building 
(completed) and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 
and the Chicago & Alton freight houses. 


Projects in the Plan of Chicago which the com- 
panies are obligated to complete at their own expense 
are: 

1. Construction of a connection between Canal 
Street and Orleans Street, connecting the North and 
West Sides of the city, via the two-level Kinzie Street 
bridge. | 

2. Widening Canal Street from 80 feet to 100 
feet from Washington Street to Roosevelt Road. 

3. Grading Canal Street to as uniform a level as 
practicable. 3 aah Sri 

4. Opening Monroe Street as a through~éast- 
and-west street, including viaduct and bridge approach. 

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Lake Frent Park, Harbor and Terminal Development 


5. Present and future widening of all east-and- 
west viaducts from Lake Street to Roosevelt Road in- 
clusive. : 

6. Building Roosevelt Road viaduct 118 feet 
wide from Canal Street to the west bank of the river. 

7. Provision for the viaduct on Congress Street 
across the tracks when the city opens that street from 
Franklin Street to the river. 

8. Keeping the viaduct roadways level with the 
river bridges. 

9, Opening 14th Street as an _ east-and-west 
street. | 

10. Opening 16th Street as an east-and-west 
SiGe. 

fie VVidenine the viaduct on 18th Street. 

Pomeevy 1deninosthe viaduct on Polk Street from 
40 feet to 80 feet. 

13. Widening the Taylor Street viaduct from 40 
to 80 feet. 

14. Providing space on the four sides of the head- 
house for loading and unloading passengers without 
evemeacniment On the present street area. 

15. The total abandonment of the original freight 
plans of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which action pre- 
served the Plan of Chicago, and makes possible the 
West Side diagonal street system. 

ieee ie tatlioad companies also agreed to co- 
operate in the river straightening from Polk to 16th 
Street. 


The original cost to the railroad companies was 
estimated to be $60,000,000.00—$50,000,000.00 for the 
passenger station plans and plan improvements and 
$10,000,000.00 for freight stations. This it is estimated 
will be $75,000,000.00 on account of increased cost of 
material and labor. 


@ ‘Vhe plans for the improvement of the lake front 
from Grant Park to Jackson Park require the filling 
of the submerged area the entire distance of five miles. 
These are co-ordinated with the Illinois Central Rail- 
road terminal plans. The company has been granted 
the privilege of filling a certain submerged area adja- 
cent to its present right of way, to enable it to straigh- 
ten and expand the approach to its new terminal. * 

There will be 1,138 acres of new parks, including 
all the usual recreational facilities. 

The plans include the Field Columbian Museum, 
now located on made ground at the foot of Roosevelt 

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Cost 


Lake Front 
Park and 
Tilinois Central 
Terminal Plans 


Area of 
New Park 


43 


44 


Road (Twelfth Street), and the Stadium to the south- 
ward thereof. 

















Park Row buildings and Old Illinois Central Station to be razed and land made a part of Grant Park. 


The parks are to be in two sections, an inner and 
an outer one. The shore park adjacentao the [ling 
Central right-of-way will include the area around the 

















Roosevelt Road east of Michigan Avenue, new Illinois Central passenger terminal, Field Columbian Museum 
and Stadium, This shows Grant Park extended south to Roosevelt Road. 


Field Columbian Museum, and will vary in width from 
approximately 300 to /50stect alonosthewamrtes- ere 
line from Grant Park at Roosevelt Road to Jackson 
PEW ane (eyAue Siecle: 


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The outer park 1s to extend the entire length and 
will vary in width from 800 to 2,500 feet. 


On the inner or shore parkway there will be sev- 
eral bathing beaches and provision has been made for 
additional bathing beaches on the lakeward side of the 
outer fill. 


Between these two parkways there will be a water- 
course five miles long and six hundred feet wide. 

This protected riverway will afford opportunity 
for regattas, rowing, boating, swimming, skating, and 
the like. It will be a fresh body of water, constantly 
circulating by the frequent openings in the outer park 
and at both ends. 

The fill is to be made partly by the use of sand 
from the bed of the lake and partly of waste material, 
Such as excavation material, cinders: and so forth. 
1,000,000 cubic yards per year of this material is now 
available and this amount will increase as time goes on, 
particularly when a transportation subway 1s con- 
structed. 


The plans include a commercial harbor reservation 
between 16th and 47th Streets, as decreed by the United 
States War Department. 

A yacht harbor is provided, protected by a break 
water, between the Municipal Pier at Grand Avenue 
ana 1oth Street. 


Two motorboat racing courses are provided within 


the government breakwater, which is to be extended 


southward to Jackson Park. 


Fight direct east-and-west street car lines will 
GCotmect the new park area with the West Side... The 
parks will be accessible from all sections of the city 
for a single carfare. 


The plans provide fOmatiieecanmienione otr. Grant 
Fark (200: acres in the heart of the city) with all late 
usual park facilities. 

They include the widening of South Park A eat 
from 66 feet to 150 feet from 35th to 22nd Street to 
extend Grand Boulevard through the new park to Ran- 
dolph Street. This will cc a new rapid trafficway 
between the North and the South Sides avoiding the 
congested loop district, and will greatly Peeves the 
crowded conditions on Michigan Avenue. 


In exchange for the riparian rights of the Illinois 
Central Railroad Company the South Park Commis- 
sioners permitted the company, at its own expense, to 

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Bathing 
Beaches 


Watercourse 


Commercial 
Harbor 


Motorboat 
Racing 
Courses 


Street-car Lines 


What Plans 
Provide For 


Railroad Benefit 


46 


Railroad 
Concessions 


fill the submerged area necessary to straighten and ex- 
pand its right- ae -way. 


The company agreed to the following: 

To electrify its facilities within a certain time. 

To give certain land to extend Grant Park across 
Park Row to the new 118 foot wide Roosevelt Road 
(Twelith Street) viaduct and=to extend) the jaaques 
from Michigan Avenue to the Field Columbian Mu- 
seum and the lake. 

Track depression; and restrictions of the use of 
their newly acquired right of way. 

Widening Indiana Avenue to 100 feet between 16th 
Street and Roosevelt Road. 





A typical view of the five mile stretch of lake front parks, under construction, showing the 600 foot 


Agreement 


Ordinance 


wide watercourse. 


Erection of the passenger station east of Indiana 
Avenue to conform architecturally to the adjacent 
Field Columbian Museum. 

Extension without compensation to the company 
of streets, viaducts, and tunnel across its right of way 
into the new park. 

This agreement between the Illinois Central Rail 
road Company and the South Park Commissioners was 
adjudicated and confirmed in the Circuit Court July 8, 
1912. 

After ten years of negotiation between the City, 
the South Park Commissioners and the Illinois Central 

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Railroad Company, an ordinance was passed by the 
City Council July 21, 1919, by a vote of 66 to 2, which 
provides for this lake front and Illinois Central de- 
velopment. 


This ordinance was accepted by the railroad com- 
pany February 18, 1920, certain amendments having 
been incorporated by the City Council to meet the de- 
mands of the War Department. 


mUemciinite(ronmetnesyyar Wepartment necessary 
to enable the South Park Commissioners to make the 
park fill was signed by Secretary of War Newton D. 
Baker February 20, 1920. 

The chronology of the ten years negotiation fol- 
lows: 


Negotiations with the Illinois Central Railroad 
Memioatys tastituteas by the Plan Committee of -lhe 
Commercial Club, Edward B. Butler, Chairman, and 
later, including a special citizens’ committee, Lessing 
Rosenthal, Chairman, finally resulting in the agree- 
ment between the South Park Commissioners and the 
railroad company, ratified by the Circuit Court. 


January 25—Appointment of the Lake Shore Re- 
clamation Commission by Mayor Fred A. Busse 
Piediestreqtest.or the City Cotincil on order introduced 
byerviceriman theodore kK. Lone,-for the institution 
of necessary proceedings to secure title and possession 
to the lake shore for the city or the park board. 


December 11—Contract agreed to between the 
South Park Commissioners and the Illinois Central 
Railroad Company; ordinance introduced in the City 
Council approving and confirming this contract. 


December 23—Commencement of public hearings 
in the City Council Committee on Harbors, Wharves 
and Bridges. 


Convening of a special session of the State Legis- 
lature and the adoption of a measure for the condem- 
nation of riparian rights for park purposes. 


March 30—Present contract between South Park 
Commissioners and Illinois Central Railroad Company 


entered into, amended by a supplemental agreement 
(June 26) and ratified in the Circuit Court July 8, 1912. 


November 4—South Park Commissioners made 
application to the War Department for the establish- 
ment of harbor lines and for three separate permits to 
fill submerged areas as follows: 1. Opposite Grant Park 

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Acceptances 


War Depart- 
ment Permit 


1909 
Negotiations 
Started 


1910 

Lake Shore 
Reclamation 
Commission 


1911 Original 
Contract 


Public Hearings 


Started 


1912 State 
Law 


47 


Present Contract 


Government 
Permit 
Requested 


48 


from Randolph Street south to Roosevelt Road. 2. 
From Roosevelt Road south to 67th Street. 3. From 
95th Street south to 102nd Street. 


Lesa ies October 18—War Department granted permit for 
building as much of the breakwater and necessary fill- 
ing of submerged lands as would be required for the 
erection of the Field Columbian Museum _ between 
Roosevelt Road and 16th Street. 


mr habeyea yi November 20—Delegation headed by Mayor Car- 
Meily ter H. Harrison appeared before the Secretary of War 
in Washington in support of the lake front plan. 




















From a painting by F. R. Harper for the Chicago Trust Co. 


New Field Columbian Museum of Natural History. 


maha December 18—Secretary of War L. M. Garrison 
declared the War Department did not have authority 
to grant the general request inasmuch as it was not 
approved by a city ordinance, and his department could 
not give the matter further consideration until such 
ordinance had been passed and other questions con- 
served pertaining to the protection of the jurisdiction 
of the government over navigable waters. 


January 17—Bill introduced in Congress by Rep- 
resentative James R. Mann authorizing the Secretary of 
War to grant permits requested by South Park Com- 
missioners. 

Harmonized November 16—Council Committee on Harbors, 
Plan ; 3 : 
Wharves and Bridges appointed a sub-committee to 
take up the whole lake front question to the end of 
harmonizing the park and harbor needs of Chicago. 
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1914 Mann Bill 


December 23—Council sub-committee received 
and approved the report on the harmonized plan. 


January 8—Re-affirmation of the lake front plans 
by the Chicago Plan Commission. 


January 3—Approval by the City Council Com- 
mittee on Harbors, Wharves and Bridges of the ordin- 
ance covering the lake front plans. 


March 3—Ordinance rejected by the Illinois Cen- 
tral Company. The company was then asked to sub- 
mit definite plans for its vast terminal scheme. 


September 20—Illinois Central Railroad Company 
submitted definite terminal plans to City Council Com- 
mittee on Railway Terminals. 


The war precluded further negotiations until 1919. 
Meanwhile the technical staffs of the Railway Term- 
inal Commission, the Illinois Central Railroad Com- 
pany and the Plan Commission perfected the details 
of the new ordinance. 


January—The Council Railway Terminal Com- 
mittee resumed hearings and consideration of the or- 
dinance. 


July 21—The Lake Front-Illinois Central ordin- 
Poco y ean Vole Ol OG 10-4, was passed -by the: City 
Council, granting the railroad company and the park 
board six months within which to accept it. This grant 
was later extended thirty days. 

January 19—South Park Commissioners accepted 
ordinance and the amendments (February 3). 


February 18—The Illinois Central Railroad Com- 
pany accepted the ordinance. 


February 20—Secretary of War Newton D. Baker 
signed the permit establishing a harbor line and giving 
Pep souls. atk Commissioners the right to carry out 
Pieapatk. plans, 














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49 


1915 Commission 
Action 


1916 Original 


Ordinance 


Ordinance 
Rejected 


Tilinois Central 
Ordinance 


War Delay 


1919 Hearings 
Resumed 


Ordinance 
Passed 


1920 Park Board 
Acceptance 


Company 
Acceptance 


Government 
Permit Granted 


Bond Issue 


Bond Vote 


Early State 
Laws _ 


Chicago Harbor 
Commission 


Original 
Burnham 
Suggestion 


Commercial and 
Merchants’ 
Club Meeting 


Detailed History 


Illinois Central 
Cost 


Time Limits 


Park Plans 


Three Year 
Program 


February 24—$20,000,000.00 of bonds were ap- 
proved at the city election by the voters in the South 
Park District with which to start the work on the 
lake front plans, and for general park and boulevard 
work in the district. 


The bond proposals were approved by majorities 
varying from 32,568 to 37,645 or a vote of 2% to 1. 


Back of these ten years of negotiation laws were 
enacted by the State Legislature in 1903 and in 1907 
authorizing the South Park Commissioners to reclaim 
the submerged area along the lake front between 
Grant and Jackson Parks. 


In 1909 the report of the Chicago Harbor Com- 
mission was issued, approving the lake front plans. 


Back of this was the original suggestion of Dan- 
iel Hudson Burnham at the close of the World’s Fair 
to improve the south shore lake front. 


At the joint meeting of The Commercial Club and 
the Merchants’ Club March 18, 1905, the subject was 
“What Shall be Done with the Lake Front?” 


A. detailed history of the lake front negotiations 
up to 1915 was printed in the proceedings of the Chi- 
cago Plan Commission of January 8, 1915. 


The cost of the Illinois Central terminal develop- 
ment, including electrification and the construction of 
its main and sub-stations, is $85,000,000.00. 

The ordinance carries certain time limits as fol- 
lows: 

Seven years for the electrification of the suburban 
service, including two years for depressing the tracks. 

Ten years tor electrifying the. freight scram 
north of Roosevelt Road. 

Fifteen years for electrifying freight service south 
of that point. 

Twenty years for electrifying through passenger 
service. 

The park plans, including Grant Park and the sub- 
merged area between Grant and Jackson Parks, will 
FeEquikesten years 1oscolpletc: 

Bonds available cover a three year period of work. 

This includes: 

Completion of Grant Park. 

Completion of fill in vicinity of Field Columbian 
Museum and erection of Stadium. 

Breakwater and bulkhead construction and shore 
Hileto scotia treet: 


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Widening South Park Avenue and its extension 
north through the new park. 

Acquiring remaining land necessary for Grant Park 
extension to Roosevelt Road and extension of that 
thoroughfare to the Field Columbian Museum. 


@ The- Ogden Avenue improvement -was recom- 
mended by the Plan Commission December 14, 1916. 


Ogden Avenue 



























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Plan of Ogden Avenue diagonal extension, 2.7 miles long, between Union and Lincoln Parks. 


This diagonal thoroughfare will be an entirely new 
pmeeeree Ue tect. wide and 2/7 -miles’ lone, running 
northeast from Union Park to Lincoln Park through 
an area of low property values and poor development. 
It will require three subways and one viaduct across 
Ma rocdetrackseanue over Goose Island, and ‘a new 
Biieeeactoss the northibratich of the river. 

eden sw veilemiscit exists toOUay, issn important 
radial thoroughfare, leading from Union Park south- 
west past the city limits through Riverside and Naper- 

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Description 


52 


Purpose 


Value 


Ordinance 


Zone of 
Assessment 


Bond Issue 


South Water 
Street 


Purpose 


ville, connecting with the Plainfield and Joliet high- 
ways. 

Its extension northeast from Union Park will pro- 
vide a short and direct connection between the North 
and West Sides of the city and will serve as a necessary 
connection between industrial plants and the homes 
of the industrial population. 

It will directly benefit more than a quarter of a 
million people and give a direct means of reaching 
Lincoln Park, the Municipal Pier and Lake Michigan | 
to an industrial population, which, at present, is not 
adequately served with recreational facilities. 


Besides facilitating traffic, it will increase proper- 
ty values by restoring to economic use areas now im- 
perfectly developed, thus increasing the revenue of 
the city and its bond issuing capacity. 

During 1917, an order was introduced in the City 
Council asking that the improvement of Ogden Avenue 
be postponed until after the war, and it was necessary 
for Chairman Charles H. Wacker to appear before the 
City Council Committee on Home Defense in advocacy 
of proceeding with the preliminaries without delay. 


The ordinance for the improvement was passed by 
the City Council February 18, 1919, by a vote of 45 to 
8. The petition of the city was filed in court and the 
court commissioners appointed March 4, 1919. 


The zone of assessment covers nine square miles, 
averaging half a mile on each side of and parallel to 
Ogden Avenue from Belmont Avenue on the north to 
the city limits on the south at 20th streem 


A bond issue of $5,400,000.00 for the public cost 
was approved at the election of November 4, 1919, by a 
vote of 96,948. 


@ On November 23, 1917, the Plan Commission rec- 
ommended the reclamation of South Water Street as 
a public thoroughfare. 


The reasons for this improvement are: 

It will reduce the high cost of living. 

It will become the second most important distrib- 
utor of traffic. 

It will enable vehicles ‘between the North and 
West and Southwest Sides to avoid loop congestion. 

It will facilitate traffic on the important east-and- 
west streets north and south of the river by providing 
a new through two-level east-and-west traffic artery, 
the lower level unobstructed by cross traffic. 

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Plan for Chicago River Improvement, 


It will bring State, Dearborn, Clark and Wells 
Streets, into their full usefulness, now greatly impaired 
by produce market usage. 

It will provide an uninterrupted connection be- 
tween the Illinois Central freight yards and the West 
Side warehouse and terminal districts. 

It will be the first step in the Plan of Chicago to 
make the banks of the Chicago River profitable, use- 
ful and attractive. 

It will increase property values throughout a con- 
siderable area and add to the annual revenue of the city. 

It will make possible an annual saving of $6,540,- 
000.00 through the removal of the produce market to 
an adequate and properly located terminal site. 


This yearly saving is composed of the following 
items: 
Dieaste Of toodstufts....... = $2,520,000.00 
Cost of handling foodstuffs... 1,624,800.00 
Haulage saving to commer- 


CTAIRIN LET OGI See ete oe cchs 563,000.00 
Saving in time by reduced 

piyeetetralnc delaysa.tenace 1,600,000.00 
Annual rental revenue................. 232,200.00 


otal eee ae $6,540,000.00 


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Annual Saving 


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South Water Street Produce Market. 


Description The new South Water Street will be 135 feet wide 
on the lower surface and [10 feet on the upper lévelem 
place OlzoUstecth asealpreseuc 

It will extend from the present south line of South 
Water and: River Streets: to the: edvesor ther ivemsacs 
tween Michigan Avenue and Market Street. 

At the east end the upper and lower levels or 
South Water Street will fit in with the upper and lower 
levels of Michigan Avenue and on the west with the 
present grade at Market and Lake Streets. 

Between these points the upper level will conform 
to the height of the new and proposed bridges across 
the river as fixed by the: Pederal \authonitiesaene 








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Plan of South Water Street two-level improvement, showing its connection with the upper and lower levels of 
Michigan Avenue, 


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lower level will provide splendid dockage space twenty- 
five feet wide and a mile long. 


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South Water Street showing the dilapidated buildings along the river front, to be removed. 


ihe Gity-Ccouncik on Wecember 15, 1919 by ai:vote Ordinance 
of 64 to 0, passed an ordinance providing for the widen- 
ing of South Water and River Streets. An ordinance 





South Water Street improvement, when completed, showing old buildings removed and two-level development 
along the river front between Michigan Avenue and Market Street, 


for the upper level construction will have to be passed 
before the court trial can be started. 

An analysis of the technical features of the origin- 
al South Water Street plan, prepared by our technical 


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Bond Issue 


West Side 
Streets 


Need For 
Through Streets 


Connections 


department, has been made by our special Engineer, 
J. R. Bibbins, of the Arnold Company. This included 
a survey of local conditions surrounding the project, 
and recommendations as to the specific technical feat- 
ures to be embodied. The plan is now approved as to its 
important controlling features by Engineer J. R. Bib- 
bins, C. D. Hill, Engineer ef the Board of Local Im- 
provements, Thomas G. Pihlfeldt, City Engineer of 
Bridges, Hugh Young, City Bridge Designing Engin- 
eer, Edward J. Noonan, Engineer, Chicago Railway 
Terminal Commission, and our Consultant, E. H. Ben- 
nett. This report is now before the Board of Local Im- 
provements with a request from the Plan Commission 
that an ordinance be drawn. 


A bond issue of $3,800,000.00 for the public cost 
was voted at the election of November 4, 1919, by a 
majority of 99,058. 


@ Of the thirteen north-and-south section and half- 
section line streets in Chicago, in the seven miles be- 
tween the loop and the western city limits, only two 
are continuous through thoroughfares, 

The need for through street improvements on the 
West Side is evident in the lack of through north-and- 
south streets. 


The three streets proposed for improvement— 
Western Avenue, Ashland Avenue and Robey Street— 
will become effective arteries, serving a large and con- 
stantly increasing population and giving better service 
between industrial zones and the homes of industrial 
workers, as they pass alternately through five indus- 
trial and six residential areas. 

They are to be made great through trunk lines 
capable of carrying street traffic and rapid transit car- 
lines. 


At both ends these streets connect with important 
outlying thoroughfares. In their central parts between 
the two branches of the Chicago River they will effec- 
tively unite the diagonal arteries of the city, facilitating 
traffic thereon. 

They will provide adequate roadways giving easy 
movement to all kinds of traffic, and freeing surface 
car lines, motor trucks and other vehicles from inter- 
ference with each other. 


As with all other Plan of Chicago improvements, 
large increases in property values will result, with a 
consequent increase in the revenues of the city. 

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@ The Western Avenue widening was recommended 
by the Commission February 1, 1918. 

Western Avenue varies in width at 18 different places 
from 50 to 330 feet. It is to be made a minimum width 
of 100 feet from city limits to city limits. 

The improvement of Western Avenue is covered 
by several city ordinances, each dealing with a section. 

The ordinance for widening the street between 
Howard Avenue (the northern city limits) and Law- 
rence Avenue was passed by the City Council fuly 21, 
1919, by a vote of 64 to 0. 

Three ordinances between West 68th and West 
107th Streets were passed by the City Council Novem- 
Gem 1719, by a vote of 66 to 0. 

An ordinance covering the area between Lawrence 
Avenue and West 3lst Street was passed by the City 
Council December 1, 1919, by a vote of 69 to O. 

The balance of the widening does not require con- 
demnation ordinances, as it is within the power of the 
city to secure the needed width at the time the street 
is dedicated for public use. 

The case will be brought to trial at as early a date 
as may be possible. 

A. $2,400,000.00 bond issue for the public cost was 
approved at the election of November 4, 1919, by a 
vote of 103,483. 


@ The Ashland Avenue widening was recommended 
by the Commission December 20, 1918. 

Ashland Avenue is not open at four places and 
varies in width from 42 to 100 feet in 28 different local- 
ities. It is to be opened where it is now closed and 
made not less than 100 feet wide all the way through. 

A bond issue of $5,800,000.00 for the public cost 
was approved by the voters at the election of November 
4, 1919, by a majority of 92,886. 


@ The Robey Street widening was recommended by 
the Commission December 20, 1918. 

Robey Street is closed in nine places and varies in 
width from 30 to 100 feet in nineteen places. 

It is to be opened where closed and made not less 
than 84 feet from the northern to the southern city 
limits. 

A bond issue of $9,200,000.00 for the public cost was 
authorized at the election of November 4, 1919, by a 
vote of 92,298. 


@ The forest preserves are a part of the Plan of 
Chicago, and the areas acquired fall within its recom- 
1075 


Western Avenue 


Ordinances 


Bond Issue 


Ashland Avenue 


Robey Street 


Forest Preserves 


57 


mendations, but the work of acquiring these preserves 
has been distinctively within the province of the Board 
of Forest Preserve Commissioners of Cook County. 























Forest Preserves. A typical view in one of the splendid outer parks. 


The part of the Plan Commission has been that of 
helping to secure the state enactment and of presenting 























Forest Preserves. A bit of woodland in one of the forest preserves surrounding Chicago. 


continuously to the public the need for forest preserves 
and the benefits to be derived therefrom. Chairman 


1076 


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Charles H. Wacker is a member of the Plan Committee 
of the Forest Preserve Commission. 


The State Legislature, in June, 1913, passed an State Law 
enabling act authorizing forest preserve commissions 
within counties in Illinois, and outlining their powers 
and duties. | 

Under this act the Cook County Board of Forest 
Preserve Commissioners was created on February !1, 
1915, 

Whe first forest preserve was purchased in Palos 
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Forest Preserves. A view along the Desplaines River, 


Up to March 1, 1920, 14,254 acres had been ac- Area Acquired 
quired. 
During March the Commissioners recommended 
the purchase of 2,000 acres more or less in the Skokie 
Weaiileyv it sthey Cajlebe Sectited at a-reasonable price, 
Thus forest preserve parks have been established equit- 
ably in and around the city on all sides in every part of 
Cook County. 
Five thousand additional acres are recommended 
for purchase, of a total of 35,000 available. 


The worth of forest preserves to a community is Benefits 
so well established as to scarcely require mention here. 
The humanitarian and commercial value ci these coun- 
try playgrounds is beyond computation. Their benefit 
will mount ever-increasingly as Chicago continues to 
add to its population. 
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Cost 


Exterior 
Highway 
System 


First Circuit 


Second Circuit 


Third Circuit 


Radial Roads 


Paving 


Bond Issue 


Program 


The eminently satisfactory manner in which the 
Forest Preserve Commissioners of Cook County have 
acquired these preserves is an outstanding feature of 
public service well performed. 


The cost of the 14,254 acres already acquired was 


$5,316,762.00. 


@ The exterior highway system in the Plan of Chi- 
cago provides for the connection and improvement of 
the highways surrounding the city. 

There are three encircling highway circuits sur- 
rounding Chicago, complete with the exception of 
about five per cent. where connections will have to be 
made. 


The first circuit connects Winnetka, the northern 
lake terminal, with La Grange, Hinsdale, Blue Island 
and Orland, ending with Roby on the lake at the south. 


The second circuit starts with Waukegan on the 
lake to the north, connecting that city with Liberty- 
ville, Lake Zurich, Elpin, Geneva, Aurora, |oletmcaas 
cago Heights, ending with Gary on the lake at the 
south. 


Circuit No. 3 is also a lake terminal at Kenosha on 
the north, and embraces Woodstock, Genoa, Sycamore, 
Morris, Momence, Kankakee and La Porte, finding its 
southern outlet again on the lake at Michigan City. 


Radial roads extend outward from Chicago in 
every direction, connecting the city with these several 
circuits, with the forest preserves, and with the sur- 
rounding suburban towns. 


In the exterior highway zone, during the past ten 
years, two hundred miles of roads have been paved at 


a cost of $3,000,000.00. 
At the election November 4, 1919, a $5,000,000.00 


good roads bond issue was voted by a majority of 
Drip em 

The present road program contemplates paving 
165 miles of roads. As much of this work will be done 
as the $5,000,000.00 bond issue will cover. 

To date the Department of Highways of Cook 
County has not created any new roads, nor widened 
any existing road. 


The new program provides for short cut-offs and 
straightening jogs in roads to be paved. The scheme 
generally fits in with the Chicago Plan scheme for 
outer highways, but in addition provides for the paving 
of some secondary roads. 

1078 


Only one new road is contemplated. This. will 
parallel the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad through 
Park Ridge and Palatine to Barrington, about twenty 
miles. 


The principal radials paved since 1913 are: Radial Roads 


Paved 
Number of Miles 
Name of Road Beyond City Limits 
Memeeaukee and Waukegan Road. a 10 
RN NV CITC ee cere sect rceest ecg Obes i) 
@eeeame venue to Morton Grove... 5 
Ballard and Rand Roads to Lake Zurich............. 14 
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Super rene tot joliet- = ee es 20 
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61 


62 


Circuit 
Roads Paved 


The circuits generally require extensions and new 
road rights-of-way. However, pavements have been . 
laid on many roads which will form parts of circuits %) 
when the new connecting roads are cut through. 

The roads which are parts of the circuits, and 


which have been paved, are 
Number of Miles 


Name of Road Outside City Limits 

Dempster Street 2 ee 6 
DesPlaines River Road— 

North) batt. eee 11 

South-barte 3 6 
Kean.A Venues 228s 6 ee a 
O5th. Streeta 22. ee ee 8 | 
Lincoln igh ways capte ee ee 1s 
Homewood-Lansine = Roadiee = eee 7 


All road improvements are being carried out to co- 
ordinate with construction programs of adjoining coun- 
ties. 



































More than 58,000,000 people, half the population of the United States, reside within the circle—500 miles 


from Chicago, 


the Great Central Market—center of 100,000 miles of railway, center of population, 


center of natural resources, center of fine arts, sciences and education and center of city planning, 


In General 


@ Chicago today stands at the threshold of a great 
future. Set in the center of the largest and nieheen ter- 
ritory on earth, it is a city where commerce flows to v 
and fro with an ease and economy unmatched by any 
other city. 
1080 


recmiineccmonOmte Oleic pest investinents a-city 
Pdieiidtse lite titer appeal ot the Chicago, Plan.is by 
no means entirely a commercial appeal. It is a human 


appeal, a moral appeal, an appeal to make Chicago bet- 
fete not iotethe money. that 1s im it, but tor the sake 
of the higher mental, moral and physical people that 
a perfectly arranged city will produce. 





With unlimited room for growth and unlimited 
supplies of building materials, all forces are working 
to promote its interests and increase its commerce. 


Problems of fundamental importance are con- 
cerned with safeguarding the public health, relieving 
congestion in the crowded districts, adequate provision 
for healthful recreation, economic handling and distrib- 
ution of foodstuffs, and cheap and easy means of trans- 
portation. 


Scores of millions of dollars will be saved by prop- 
erly building today, so that the future will not be a 
chapter of wasteful destruction in rebuilding to repair 
the mistakes of present day shortsightedness. 


Investments in public betterments cannot be re- 
Paiiecmaceexpenditures. They are economies. The 
expenditures of today are the economies of tomorrow. 


The cost of public playgrounds, lake front parks, 
bathing beaches, forest preserves, and similar recrea- 
tional features for the benefit of all our people, drops 
into insignificance when compared with the priceless 
value of safeguarding the health of our men, women 
and children, and creating conditions which will in- 
crease happiness, elevate morals, and produce better 
citizens. 


Orderliness is one of the best investments a city 
Paeiiakes Dut the appeal of the Chicago Plan is by 
no means entirely a commercial appeal. It is a human 
appeal, a moral appeal, an appeal to make Chicago bet- 
of the higher mental, moral and physical people that 
of the higher, mental, moral and physical people that 
a perfectly arranged city will produce. 


ihe Elan of Chicaco is not a panacea for all the 
CG@memiisethat beset our city. It aims simply at the 
physical development of Chicago for the good of not 
Onemciass of people or of one section of the city, but 
for the good of all Chicagoans—for the good of all 
Chicago. 

Beoticr city Of modern times has been given a 
plan so comprehensive—one that proposes so many 
economic, hygienic, sociological, commercial and hu- 
manitarian benefits—and one so thoroughly calculated 
to meet the needs of a vast and growing populace. 





The ten years work of the Chicago Plan Commis- 
sion upon the Plan has been an effort to assist Chicago 
to fulfill its ambition to be the best, most orderly, 
healthful, convenient and attractive city in America. 

1081 


Problems To 
Be Solved 


Value of City 
Planning 


What the 
Plan Is 


The Great 
Purpose 


Chicago Plan Commission 
Room F, Hotel Sherman 
TELEPHONE FRANKLIN 2120—LOCAL 125 


ROSTER OF MEMBERS 


OFFICERS 


MAYOR Vl LL Lecnt cul Cae lot Oral 0S Ollrmeretenterene Honorary President ex-officio 
Gharles) Elise War ChGr ota re) dtecpean otto beveuennla er cae eee Oe caret ae nie Ben ee eee ee Chairman 
Brank’ 1s Bennet tenor, caret etree tere at Reroute nor cktaen tess Vice-Chairman 
Wiel ters IS IMO Od Veucens eeucacas «ciate star wecietsvone sic) en hic ame. Managing Director 


Hugene §S. Taylor 


Office Manager 
De Jel WeSraworetere 


Consultant 


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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 


Charles H. Wacker, Chairman 
Walter D. Moody, 
AG Cwebartlrent 
Edward B. Butler 
Clyde M. Carr 
John J. Coughiin, Ald. 
Frederic A. Delano 
John V. Farwell 


Joy Morton 


Albert J. Fisher, Ald. 


Wm. N. Pelouze 
Jon Powers) ALG. 
Julius Rosenwald 


Frank I. Bennett, Vice-Chairman 


Managing Directer 


James Simpson 
John #F. Smulski 
Charles H. Thorne 
Harry A. Wheeler 
Walter H. Wilson 
Michael Zimmer 


Danrel WJ. schuyder 


ADAMOWSKI, MAX, ALD. 

2410 Fullerton Ave. 
AMBERG, WALTER ARNOLD 

GeO Sua alles te 
ANDERSON, ALBERT O., ALD. 

2435 N. Lowell Ave. 
ARMOUR, J. OGDEN 

iS elua Salles ts 
AUSTRIAN, ALFRED S&S. 

76 W. Monroe St. 
BAKHR, ALFRED L. 

141 S. La Salle St. 
BAMBAS, JAMES F. 

2311 S. Trumbull Ave: 
BANCROFT, EDGAR A. 

1300, 606 S. Michigan Ave. 
BARDONSKI, V. 

1256 Noble St. 
BARR, ALFRED E. 

President, Library Board, 

L107 So, a Sallesst. 

ATR Dlg Bel secs 

State St. Bridge. 
BART LATED. PRE DHRICK EH. 

69 E. Washington St. 
BAULER, JOHN HH. ALD: 

515 W. North Ave. 
BEIDLER, FRANCIS 

20 W. Jackson Blvd. 
BEIDLER, GEORGE 

13802, 19 So. La Salle St. 
BENNETT, FRANK I. 

Director of Public Works and Buildings, 

Springfield, Ill. 

BERLIN, ROBERT C. 

9 Si) ia Salite St 
BILLINGS, DR. FRANK 

242 H. Walton Place. 
BINYON, LEWIS D. 

304 Chamber of Commerce Building. 
BOEHM, JOHN J. 

1901 S. Halsted St. 
BOND, WILLIAM A. 

25 N. Dearborn St. 
BRAD IG Ye @ EUNente 

4709 Halsted St. 
BROOKS, ROBHR® HPL: 

9904 Ewing Ave. 
BROWN, EVERETT C. 

57-59 Exchange Bldg. 
BUDINGER JOHN 

2449 Wentworth Ave. 
BUDLONG, JOSHPH J. 

5224 Lincoln St. 
BUTLER, EDWARD BB. 

Randolph Bridge. 
BYRNE tl © Sa He eAcle ): 

LSS eV emO Lhe te 


1082 


CAMPBELL, DANIEL A. 
5646 Sheridan Road. 
GyARETAIVAVTEIN ae Ee BINIERSY a) eee ler 1D 

184 W. Lake St. 
CARLILE, WM. BUFORD 
Postmaster 
3858 Federal Bldg. 
CARPENTER, BENJAMIN 
436 Wells St. 
CUNMRUIR © COIL NDAD AE, 
2558 W. 16th St. 
CARRY, EDWARD F. 
707 Railway Exchange Bldg. 
CHRVENKA, JOHN A. 
2438 So. Lawndale Ave. 
CHAMBERLIN, HENRY BARRETT 
928 Hearst Bldg. 
CHAP.) IGNADIUS; 
555. W. 31st St 
CLARK, A. SHELDON 
Conway Bldg. 
CLARKSON, RALPH 
410 S. Michigan Ave. 
CHORD BEAN TGro. 
175 W. Jackson Blvd. 
CLOW, WILLIAM BE. 
534 So. Eranklin St. 
COHEN, EDWARD 
4555 Grand Blvd. 
COMBS teas: 
City Engineer, 
City Hall: 
CONNER YG ao ce 
1804 McCormick Bldg. 
COMB ONe OLUNGO: 
5511 Center Ave. 
COONLEY, HENRY HE. 
11 So. La Salle St. 
COUGHLIN, JOHN J: AbD: 
17 N. La Salle St. 
CROW EE, ALBHRI es: 
513 Chamber of Commerce Bldz. 
CUNEO, LAWRENCE 
1350 La Salle Ave. 
DASSO, PAUL 
814 N. Harding Ave. 
DAVIS, ABEL 
69 W. Washington St. 
DAVIS, EDWIN S&., 
Pres., Board of Education, 
Tribune Bldg. 
DAWES, CHARLES G. 
125 Wie Mionroer St, 


DEFREES, JOSEPH H. w 
Hotel Windermere, 
DELANO, FREDERIC A. 
Room 294 Treasury Bldg., 
Washington, D. C. 
+o 


DERING, JACKSON K. 
332 So. Michigan Ave. 
DIBELKA, JAMES B. 
2743 W. 22nd St. 
DIXON, GEORGE W. 
425 S. Wells St. 
DONNELLEY, THOMAS E. 
fot eb VINnOUun OO ul G 
DOWNEY, JOSEPH 

30 N. La Salle St. 
DUNBAR, THOMAS 

820 Pullman Bldg. 
DUNNE, EDWARD F. 

111 W. Washington St. 
DWEN, ROBERT G. 

3736 Ellis Ave. 
ECKHART, BERNARD A. 
1300 Carroll Ave. 

HCKHART, JOHN W. 
$811 W. Carpenter St. 
ETTELSON, SAMUEL A. 
Corporation Counsel, 
rhea 18 Geille 
FAHERTY, MICHAEL J. 


President, Board of Local Improvements, 


City ball. 
FARLEY, EDWARD P. 
1501 Railway Exchange, 
FARWELL, JOHN V. 
102 S. Market St. 
FIELD, E. C. 
509 W. 61st Place. 
FIELD, STANLEY 
BLO.) Adams (St: 
ENING © EEN: C: 
9464 Cottage Grove Ave. 
EENGGANE,. THOMAS J: 
2912 Loomis St. 
BSE -A LB MR Js, ALD: 
“4157 Yale Ave. 
FISHER, WALTER L. 
134 S. La Salle St. 
FITZMORRIS, CHARLES C. 
Private Secretary to the Mayor, 
Cryer culls 
FOREMAN, MILTON J. 
38 S. Dearborn St. 
FORGAN, DAVID R. 
National City Bank. 
FORGAN, JAMES B. 
First National Bank. 
FOWLER, W. A. 
343 S. Dearborn St. 
MREANGIS, CHARLES. R. 
Commissioner of Public Works, 
City. Hall 
HEANZ= MAT ATD: 
1618 So. Halsted St. 
BASIN DD LOULS PR: 
1656 Garfield Blvd. 
FURMAN, MARTIN S., Ald. 
8725 Houston Ave. 
GALLAGHER, THOMAS 

921 W. Madison St. 
GETZ, GEO. F. 

332 S. Michigan Ave. 
GILLIAN, REV. JOHN C. 

2542 Wallace St. 
GLACKIN, EDWARD J. 

Sec’y Board of Local Improvements, 

745 Lytle St. 

GLESSNER J. J. 

606 S. Michigan Ave. 
GOETZ, FRITZ 

1802 Clybourn Ave. 
GORDON, REV. FRANCIS 

1825 N. Wood St. 
GOVIER, SHELDON W., ALD. 

11350 Forestville Ave. 
GEVAWG a W. A. 

744 N. Franklin St. 
GRIESEMER, CHARLES J. 

102 S. Market St. 
GRUND, CHARLES H. 

3511 Archer Ave. 
GUERNSEY, GUY. ALD., 

6044 Vernon Ave. 
GUNTHDR. DR. FRANK 3B: 

TaOtevVerooth St: 
HADERLEIN, JOHN, ALD., 

191% Barrv Ave. 
HAFER. HENRY 

423 W. 24th St. 
HAGHY, OR. HARRY HH: 

800 West 78th St. 


1083 


65 


HAT RLCEvARD: C, 
317 W. Monroe St. 
eA ey ee Eve VV, 
38441 Michigan Ave. 
HARRISON, CARTER EL: 
2100 Lincoln Park West. 
HARTKHE, EMIL A. 
53839 Wayne Ave. 
EVO FyIN Bi) ING = ALT), 
38505 W. Jackson Blvd. 
HAUGAN, HENRY A. 
State Bank of Chicago. 
HEBHL, OSCAR 
1102 Schiller Bldg. 
HECHINGER, C. E. 
180 N.- Dearborn St. 
laWdleioddee VAVA Or 
3535 Archer Ave. 
HERLIHY, DANIEL 
2743 N. Albany Ave. 
HRD, HONEY £: 
30 N. Dearborn St. 
Alin hE DM RICK Ae 
5640 W. Lake St., Austin Sta. 
Hele) ORIN W:. 
1463 Monadnock Block. 
HINES, EDWARD 
2431S.) Lincolns St 
HOLABIRD, WILLIAM 
1400 Monroe Bldg. 
HOOKER, GEORGE H. 
City Club,2sol> Plymouth Court, 
HOGLINGH ER, OLLO?, G. 
801 Milwaukee. Ave. 
IBURCOUDIDAL, Ail@ysk Ye 
1352 S. Crawford Ave. 
(SNOIDIBICIEIDS (OS PAM eel PID Sys aml 
10 S. Wabash Ave. 
Ee NeeNG de 
Su INS KONE Wes Sie. 
HUNTER, THOMAS M. 
140 W. Van Buren St. 
HUTCHINSON, CHARE DS a: 
Corn Exchange Nat. Bank. 
JACKSON, GEORGE W. 
15 So. Desplaines St. 
ACIESON ROBE RID Re Alas 
3366 So. Park Ave. 
TANUSAZM Ska RYERCA NIK EL: 
Loto We LOnLGaAsor Awe. 
JOHNSON, GEORGE E. Q. 
610 Title and Trust Bldg. 
JOHNSON, NELS 
4401 W. North Ave. 
JUDD, EDWARD S. 
40 N. Dearborn St. 
KASPAR, WILLIAM 
1900 Blue Island Ave. 
KAVANAGH, MAURICE F., ALD. 
7039 We Jackson. Bivd: 
TIDUS RI, TDS OAV, 
153 W. Garfield Blvd. 
KEYES, ROLLIN A. 
335 W. Lake St. 
KOCH, FRANK J. 
2603 S. Halsted St. 
U<OWAULIBIDCHK, WAM bas ARID GO) Rs 18) 
16st Allport st. 
iO EUN Ge Wie: 
Concordia Teachers’ College, 
Oak Park. 111 
KOWALHESKI, B. F. 
TDA) AWE tasalshe pele: 
LER ME(@ iby (Os -(O) 
1740 N. Maplewood Ave. 
KRUEGER. WILLIAM F. 
2176 Canalport Ave. 
KRULEWITCH, ERNEST 
24 Sheldon St. 
KRUSE, FRED 
1457 Addison St. 
KUNDE, ERNEST 
2025 S. Halsted St. 
IAS VEATR RR Dee BV OS be breve 
3836 S. California Ave. 
LAUB, ALBERT 
A222 Se) Lalsted est. 
LEGNER, WM. G. 
916 N. Paulina St. 
LEININGER, DR. GEO. 
1856 W. North Ave. 
LE TOURNEUX, EDWARD D. 
600 Blue Island Ave. 
EES ee 
2180 Wilson Ave. 


66 


IEAM PADI, Jako labs 
2505 N. Washtenaw Ave. 
LITSINGHR, EDWARD R. 
Conway Bldg. 


LONG, THEODORE’ K. 
4823 Kimbark Ave. 
LIRYA, ISAAC 
2301 So. Crawford Ave. 
THYEN CE) © ENR 
Nat. Bank of the Republic. 
JOAN OVSE AMS ROYMPLUS) Alay! Us 
4249 Carroll Ave. 
MAC CHESNEY, NATHAN WILLIAM 
30 N. La Salle St. 
MAC VEAGH, FRANKLIN 


333 W. Lake St. 

MAMEK, GEO. 

1724 Center Ave. 
MAMER, CHRISTOPHER 

501 Throop St. 
MANG, ALBHRT G. 

One VV eM LOT O GC aicits 
MARK, CLAYTON 

2610 W. 25th Place 
INTERES GIS E SAKOSY (Ce 

905 N. Racine Ave. 
VIED Y SE eee ober Vie Ys 

ZOLO, 20SmSO mua sale rote 

MAYPOLH, WM. T. 

2236 Washington Blvd. 
McCORMICK, ALHXANDER A. 
5541 Lexington Ave. 
MeCORMICK, HAROLD FE. 
606 S. Michigan Ave. 
NMceCCUlLlO CHC EAE wel 
elie VV ee CL AIO S ice 

MeJUNKIN, WM. D. 
5 So. Wabash Ave. 
McLAUGHLIN, JOHN J. 
2Z9ASy las Salle. Site 
McLAUGHLIN, ROBERT J. 
5323 Hyde Park Blvd. 
McNICHOLS, JAMES, ALD. 
1322 Washburne Ave. 
MEY EROVITZ, DR. M: 
3136 Douglas Blvd. 
NE ON IDB es OMS My Ae 
Illinois Trust & Saving 
MOODY, WALTHR D. 
Room F, Hotel Sherman. 
MORAN, THE RRHNCHE HAL bD: 
5634 Ada St. 
VEG AUNTIE) eee le 
S18 Ss May St. 
NIG ECAC) NS a OSs 
717 Railway Exchange 
MUBLHOEFFER, EDWARD 
1325 Clybourn Ave. 
NEU CASEY. oO 13 Die depen): 
AV os HOS t: 
NANCE, WILLIS O. 
5463 Hast End Ave. 
NERING, JOHN 
space Se be, Sewble: She 
NIETERINK, HENRY 
isetay WAS Tey Sie 
NIMMONS, GEO. C. 
2007 Peoples Gas Bldg. 
NORTON, CHARLES - BD: 
First National Bank, 2 Wall St., 
New York. 
ING NWPA Ke ane) OS see enc al: 
2401 S. Trumbull Ave. 
(Oy TevsM ee GMD R RS) die 
29 S. La Salle St. 
OCHS NR Dee ane. 
2106 Sedgwick St. 
OHHMAN, JOHN S. 
2247 Wentworth Ave. 
OLSEN, OSCAR #H., ALD. 
1015 N. Sacramento Ave. 
OSBORN, GRANT C. 
448 Marquette Bldg. 
OSTROWSKY, HENRY 
1253S. Halsted St; 
OAT © Olah ae Wainer eer) 
5227 S. Morgan St. 
OTT, HERMAN A. 
3757 N. Kostner Ave. 
OTTENHEIMER, HENRY L. 
220 S. State St. 
PAGE, WALTER 
1603 Fisher Bldg. 
PALMER, HONORE 
122 S. Michigan Ave. 


Bank. 


Bldg. 


1084 


EVAR. AMIR ON ORS le 
3205 S. Morgan St. 
PAYNE, JOHN BARTON 
President Board of South Park Com- 
missioners, First Nat. Bank Bldg. w 
PBFA © Nee tems: 
332 S. Michigan Ave. 
PELIKAN, D. 
1910): S) Halsted St. 
PELOUZE, WM. NELSON 
232 E. Ohio St. 
PENDARVIS, ROBERT E. 
1018 Ashland Block. 
PETERSON, WM. A. 
1032. 30 Ni a Salle st 
PR Wipe RAN ice. 
144] W. 18th St. 
PETTIBONE, AMOS 
27 N. Desplaines St. 
PELBI eS. CEES Ein Smenc 
ei eantrord. Bide 
JPOMDMIRTONWASIEIE, dONaUNy AN. 
1459 Blackhawk St. 
PORTER, GEORGE F. 
1009 First National Bank 
POTTRHR: 2 DWIN A: 
Chicago Beach Hotel. 
POWERS) JOERN, AD: 
162 Washington St. 
IOMMWIDM Eto: TaKOls Aged) Ale. 
President West Chicago Park Com- 
missioners, Union Park, Chicago. 
PRIESS, ABRAHAM 
923 Margate Terrace. 
EASY SONG Hel, 
Tribune’ Bldg. 
REHM, WILLIAM H. 
PI00RVWe USth ast. 
REINBERG, PETER 
President. BOardm Oh Commi, 
sioners, County Building. 
REVELL, ALEXANDER H. 
141 S. Wabash Ave. 
REYNOLDS, GEO. M. 
Continental & Commercial Nat, 
IRaKCISMDigaih, IKOMSEN, <5 YN Dy 
2603 S. Halsted St. 
ROBERTSON, 2D Res JOH Nha be 
Commissioner of Health, 
Citvaetialls 
ROBINSON, THEODORE W. 
208 So. La Salle St. 
OWS CE) see Nala rete 
129 So. Jefferson St. x 
ROSENWALD, JULIUS 
Homan and Arthington 
RYERSON, MARTIN A. 
134 -S laa Salles st 
SCH UAV ONES ee 
Halsted and Taylor Sts. 
SC Odie LO ring Ve 
3005 We CA dais sSit- 
SCISAOMARIDIR. (ES QONAN DIL, Ale 
SoS ae Salen st 
SGEIW ARE Zeal s ee lens 
4838 Vincennes Ave. 
SERGEL, CHAS. H. 
President Sanitary District, 
900 S. Michigan Ave. 
S ERACN ATEEAIN SS DyAs Vale Ere 
Soto Dear Ornensits 
SEAU NE AG EA cAGN ae ene 
300 W. South Water St. 
SHEDD, JOHN G. 
Zl Oe VV een Sans te 
SH PAR DA EVAN Keel. 
ROR AS ben Sen biey (Sie. 
SIND AWVIDIREID TERIA RAY alii. 
3865 Milwaukee Ave. 
SIMMONS, FRANCIS T. 
President Lincoln Park Board, 
SZ0RS5 eh ra Di lincites 
SIMPSON, JAMES 
219 W Adams St. 
SIKAIWAG DRANK J: 
966-970 Wie sth este 
SKINNER, EDWARD M. 
HZomise Wells Ste 
SMIMDH? FOS. wAdaD: 
2342 W. Superior St. 
SMULSKI, JOHN F. w 
1201 Milwaukee Ave. 
SW NWADIR,. MBUNIAgeNy 12+ 
76th and Wallace Sts. 
STROBEL, CHARLES L. 
1744 Monadnock Bldg. 


ALD. 


Bldg. 


Commis: 


Bank. 


Aves. 


SLEVOIVE: AQ A. 

725 Marquette Bldg. 
STUBE, JOHN H. 

7542 Rogers Ave. 
STUCKART, HENRY 

2519 Archer Ave. 
SULLIVAN, ROGER C. 

122 S. Michigan Ave. 
SULTAN, DR. GEORGE 

s3e20 W. 12th St. 
SUNNY, BERNARD EH. 

230 W. Washington St. 
SWIERT, EDWARD. F. 

Union Stock Yards. 
SZYMANSKI, WALENTY 

1907 Blue Island Ave. 
TAYLOR, GRAHAM 

955 Grand Ave. 
‘RACH WAX 1. 

SIO SeOlaric St 
TENINGA, HERMAN 

11227 Michigan Ave. 
THOMPSON, JOHN R. 

350 N. Clark St. 
THOMPSON, HON. WILLIAM HALE 

3200 Sheridan Road. 
TPHORNE GCHARLES EH. 

618 W. Chicago Ave. 
TINSMAN, HOMER HE. 

1350 First National Bank Bldg. 
TOE ENE he We 

9332 South Chicago Ave. 
THON EAGN +.) O.EUN. AT: 

414tev., 21st? Place. 
UIHLEIN, EDWARD G. 

2041 Pierce Ave. 
UMBACH, FRANK L. 

6357 S. Albany Ave. 
UPHAM, FRED W. 

111 W. Washington St. 
VOPICKA, CHARLES J. 

2107 Blue Island Ave. 


1085 


67 


WACKER, CHARLES H. 

Vet suua Salle: St. 
VV eACie LE pe TACHI) Jen LANA Is 

Lode Ns Clarke Ste 
WALKOWLAK,. S.-S) SAD; 

Ses OmIN a Olarive ots 
WALLACH, THOMAS O., ALD. 

846 Center: St. 
WASHBURN, EDWARD A. 

4143 Elston Ave. 
WASHINGTON, IRVING 

910, 1384 S. La Salle St. 
WATSON, OLIVER L., ALD. 

410, 69 W. Washington St. 
WHTTEN, EMIL C. 

SUCR LOS Sei Sa) leat 
WHEELER, HARRY A. 

Tribune Bldg. 
WIDBOLDTL W.es. 

639 Deming St. 
WILDER, JOHN E. 

245 oW. leaker St. 
WILLIAMS, DR. J. 

311 Center St. 
WILLIAMS, THOMAS 

3940 N. E'rancisco Ave. 

WILSON, BENJAMIN S. 

637 Webster Bldg. 
WibSONRIOLEIN aE: 

1605 Marquette Bldg. 
WILSON, WALTER H. 

529 The Rookery. 
WOOD, WILLIAM G. 

8959 Idlston Ave. 
Wi Olli Bi YanG. vie 

2937 Archer Ave. 
ZANDER, HENRY G. 

143 N. Dearborn St. 
ZIMMER, MICHABL 

Cook County Hospital. 


INDEX 


Subject Page No. 
Accomplishments on Plan of Chicago, 4 


Appointment of Plan Commission, 4 
Ashland Avenue, of 
Assessments, Special, 5 
Benefit of Improvements, 6, 7 
Bennett, E. H., Consultant, 4, 5, 41, 56 
Bonds Voted, 5 
Boulevard Along Drainage Canal 20 
Bridges 20 
Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 24 

Memorial to, 25 
Burnham Park, 25 
Business Advertising, faely 
Busse, Mayor Fred A. 4, 22, 31 
Butler, Edward B., 47 
Campaigns, 15 
Chamberlin, Henry Barrett, 14 
Chicago Advantages, 1,02 
Chicago Harbor Commission, 50 


Chicago Plan, (See Plan of Chicago) 
Chicago Plan Commission: 


Appointment, 4 
Finances, ZL 
Headquarters, 14 
Influence of, 7} 
Membership of, 64 
Officers, 64 
Value of, 6 
Chicago’s Greatest Issue, 10 
City Council Support, 24 
City Planning Profitable 6 
City Revenue from Improvements, 6 
Civic Center, : 19 
Commerce, Effect of Plan on, 6 
Commercial Club: 
Contributions, Falk 
Membership on Commission, 22 
Plan Report, 10 
Tribute to, 21 
Completing Improvements, i) 
Congress Street, 19 
Constitutional Conventon, 20 
Consultant of Commission, 45, 41, 56 
Cook County Board of Forest 
Preserve Commissioners, 574, D9 
Cost of Plan Projects, 5 
Counsel, Legal, 20 
Destiny of Chicago, 25 
Distribution of Literature, 8, 14 
Drainage Canal Boulevard, 20 
Executive Committee, 64 
Exterior Highway System: 
Bond Issue, 60 
Circuit. Roads, 60 
Circuit Roads Paved, 62 
Improvement Program, 60 
Paving, 60 
Radial Roads, 60 
Radial Roads Paved, 61 
Faherty, Michael J., 24, 38 
Financing Plan Commission, 21 
First Constructive Work, 22, 34 
Forest Preserves: 
Area Acquired, 59 
Benefits, 59 
Cost, 60 
State Law, 59 











1086 


Subject Page No. 


Good Roads, (See Exterior Highway 

System) 
Great. Purpose of Plan of Chicago, J*/63 
Grouping Public Buildings, 19 
Harrison, Mayor Carter H., 

22, 23, 32, 34, 39, 42, 48 

Headquarters, Chicago Plan 

Commisson, 14 
Housing, 20 
Illinois Central Improvement, 

(See Lake Front) 
Improvements: 


Benefit of, 6 
New Ones Advocated, hae 
Time of Completing, 5 
Increased Bonding Power, 8 
Increased City Revenue, 6 
Increased Property Values, O72 
Indian Boundary Road, 18 
Influence of Plan Commission, 22 
Initial Constructive Work, 22, o4 
Lake Front: 
Agreement, 46 
Area of New Park, 43 
Bathing Beaches, 45 
Bond Issue, 50 
Chicago Harbor Commission, 50 
Commercial Harbor, 45 
Cost, oO 
Government Permit, AT 
History, 47, 50 
Motorboat Courses, 45 
Ordinance, 46, 49 
Outer Drive Connection, 18 
Park Plans: 45, 51 
Railroad Benefit, 45 
Railroad Concessions, 46 
Railroad Plans, 43, 46, 51 
Street-car Lines, 45 
Three Year Program, 51 
Time Limits, 51 
Watercourse, 45 
Lantern Slides, 14 
Lectures, 12 
Legal Counsel, 20 
Legislative Matters, 8 
Literature Distribution, 8, 14 
Manual, Wacker’s, 12 
Meetings, Notable 15 
Membership, Commission, 64 
Memorial to Burnham, 25 
Michigan Avenue: 
Aids, 38 
Assessment Zone, at 
Bond Issues, 38 
Bridge, 36 
Celebration, 38 
Completion, Time of 38 
Cost, 38 
Court Trial, 37 
Increased Property Values, 6 
New Buildings, 6 
Ordinances, 34, 37 
Plazas, 18 
Purpose, 34 
Special Assessments, 38 
Widening, 34 


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Minor Street Improvements, 20 
Moody, Walter D.: 

Book, “What of the City?” 15 

Testimonial to, 28 
Motion Pictures, 12 
National Conference on City Planning, 14 
New Improvements Advocated, (gee 
New Matters, 16 
New Parks, 20 
New York Tourist Revenue, 6 
News Stories, 13 
Newspaper Support, 10 
Notable Meetings, (85° 
Object Lessons, 4 
Ogden Avenue: 

Assessment Zone, 53 

Bond. Issue, Dp 

Description, 51 

Ordinance, 52 

Purpose, 51 

Value, 52 
Organizations, Assistance of, 24 
Outer Lake Front Connection, 18 
Parks, 20 
Plan Lectures, 12 
Plan of Chicago: 

Accomplishments on Plan, 4 

Bonds Voted, 5 

Cost of Projects, 5 

Created by Commercial Club, 4 

Great Purpose of Plan, Tae: 

Plan Presented to City, 4 

Problems to be Solved, 63 

Railroad Cost, 5 

Tme of Completion, 5 

Value of City Planning, 6 

What the Plan Is 63 
Plan of Chicago Day, 14 
Plan Projects Recapitulated, ol 
Plazas, Michigan Avenue, 18 
Polk Street, 19 
Post Office, 8 
Problems to be Solved, 7,8 
Profit in City Planning, 6 
Property Value Increases, 6 
Public Buildings, Grouping of, 19 
Public Support, 24 
Publicity, 10 
Railroad Cost, 5 
Railway Terminal Commission, 42 
Railway Terminals: 

Citizen’s Terminal Committee, 40 

City Benefits, 40 

Concessions, 42 

Cost, 43 

Improvements at Railroad 

Expense, 42 

Negotiations, 40 


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Subject Page No. 
Ordinances, 42 
Position of Plan Officials, 41 
Railroad Plans, 40 
Railway Terminal Commission, 42 
River Straightening, 16, 42 
Recapitulation of Plan Projects, 31 
Reconstruction Platform, 14 
River Straightening, 16, 42 
Robey Street, ait 
Rogers Avenue, 18 
Roosevelt Road: 
Assessment Zone, on 
Bond Issues, 32 
Celebration, 33 
Cost; 34 
Court Trial, 32 
East Extension, 34 
Increased Property Values, 6 
Ordinance, jl 
Purpose, 32 
Special Assessments, 34 
Widening, 33 
Roster of Members, 64 
south Water Street: 
Annual Saving, o4 
Bond Issue, 56 
Description, 54 
Ordinances, 55 
Purpose, 54 
Special Assessments, 5 
State Street Connection with 
Roosevelt Road, 20 
Stereopticon Lectures, 12 
Straightening River, 16, 42 
Street Improvements, 16 
Ten Year Report Adopted, 26 
Testimonial: 
| To Chairman Charles H. Wacker, 28 
| To Managing Director 
| Walter D. Moody, 28 
Thrity-ninth Street, 19 
Thompson, Mayor William Hale, 
22, 25, 32,°31, 38 
Tower Court, 20 
Twelfth Street (See Roosevelt Road) 
Unsolved Problems, ficams: 
Unsubdivided Sections, 20 
Value of Chicago Plan Commission, 6 
Value of City Planning, 6 
Wacker, Charles H., Testimonal to, 28 
Wacker’s Manual, 12 
West Side Streets, 56 
Western Avenue: 
Bond Issue, 57 
Ordinances, 57 
“What of the City?”—Moody’s book, 15 
What the Plan of Chicago Is, 63 
Zoning, 19 


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